Tabula rasa

[Kit]

The concept that every human is born with a [blank] mind or a [blank slate] , and that the events and experiences in life, are what [mold] who a person is...The Identity of one is created through experience... All knowledge is gained by experience first, and later by ones reasoning.

[Lanell]

a situation in which nothing has yet been planned or decided, so that someone is free to decide what should happen or be done: