Yeah I believe in this too. It's not exactly politically correct to say so for a number of reasons, but if you listen carefully to some public intellectuals, behind the scenes they believe the same. For instance, noam chomsky will talk about how the ability for humans to speak language is hard coded. That if we really were some piece of clay to be molded, noone would be able to run their own life.
IMO he's wrong about at least the importance of it, you can point to many tasks that are clearly not hard coded because they are recent inventions yet are difficult for a general AI (with zero task specific architecture) to perform, e.g. driving, playing jazz piano, playing any video game, doing advanced mathematics. Either language is much harder than all of these things (I think that's wrong) or all of these things require language capacity (in which case it's just another form of 'language = thought').
