How Babies Think

malf

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This is a great article.

As I've said before, I am convinced that we will get more clues on the nature of consciousness by studying the beginning of life than concentrating on the end of it.

http://www.alisongopnik.com/papers_alison/sciam-gopnik.pdf

Neuroscientists have started to understand some of the brain mechanisms that allow all this learning to occur. Baby brains are more flexible than adult brains. They have far more connections between neurons, none of them particularly efficient, but over time they prune out unused connections and strengthen useful ones. Baby brains also have a high level of the chemicals that make brains change connections easily.
 
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