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To ask questions, you have to 1) understand that others have minds 2) understand that there are things you don't know 3) understand that others might know thing
by glogla 5y ago
To ask questions, you have to 1) understand that others have minds 2) understand that there are things you don't know 3) understand that others might know things you don't 4) understand that you may ask them and they will tell you.
That's actually a lot of advanced cognition, even if it doesn't look that way to us.
- jd115 5y ago1) This is universal. Everything understands this. I'd argue adult humans actually have the least developed (or, more accurately, the most diluted) understanding of this. 2) Irrelevant. You know everything you need to know at any given moment. 3) Irrelevant. Nobody knows anything you care about. 4) False. Yes, you may ask, but nobody can transfer their knowledge to you, because their knowledge is of no use to you. Your questions can only be answered with your knowledge. Which makes questioning obsolete (which is where I started). Its not a lot of advanced cognition. It's a lot of misunderstanding of how life works.