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

/grey - terminally ochain dad & spouse, building products on frontier solutions w frontier people.

I would imagine so. Dr. Gabor Mate talks a lot about this…basically how children are like feels sponges 

https://youtu.be/2SfyyVS6w-Y

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