Les Greys
@les
Is it possible, before a child begins developing full senses, sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, taste the child is purely taking in feels? (Just had my 7mth old give me the most surreal look of a person full of empathy and now thinking of my 4yo and how early she did that, and my wife’s love towards them (and me
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gilles
@gilles
Something like that. Our brains predictively construct our experiences from memory, much more than sensing. Babies however, since they have no memory to predict from initially, initially are 100% sensing. Here's a fragment from a post I wrote on this. https://i.imgur.com/ZwIJZ2u.png
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gilles
@gilles
Might not be very intuitive without the full context of mechanisms at work here. Post can be found at https://www.gillesdc.com/brain/prediction
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Les Greys
@les
You’re one of the few personal websites (blog) that I have had back of mind to read. Mainly from your original recommendation of one of my previous cast. Flow hasn’t permitted me enough time to digest your words.
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