That the child was able to access insights into something new is dimmed in no way by your causal understanding of implicit empathy. This is partly a failure of

That the child was able to access insights into something new is dimmed in no way by your causal understanding of implicit empathy. This is partly a failure of the writer to convey with precision, what the kid went through in that exact moment. That the kid was genuinely receptive towards the subject because his dad is into it has little bearing on the micro-epiphany he must have gone through. If only we could all retain that sense of wonder with age.