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Except when you're born you've been around for a few months already, likely felt one thing or another shared with your mother. You're right in another way, tho
by kqr 4y ago
Except when you're born you've been around for a few months already, likely felt one thing or another shared with your mother.
You're right in another way, though: when you are born your body is still not physically wired up completely yet, a process which starts in the womb but we're not in there long enough to allow it to complete.
This is part of the reasons newborns flail around so much -- they're learning what's connected to what, and that takes lots of repetition.
I would be surprised if this didn't affect the physical wiring of the brain, too.
Also keep in mind that in the body, connectedness is not a binary idea. It's really the strength of connections in relation to each other that make up how we respond to things.
- pessimizer 4y ago> Except when you're born you've been around for a few months already With the same level of stimulation that you get from a sensory deprivation tank (by design.) Without memories and associations to get lost in, lying in a sensory deprivation tank would probably be a completely timeless thing, no different than being dead. There's very little you're going to learn in the womb that will help you to interpret what's happening outside, other than you may get some experience with the sounds of your mother's language. [edit: Feelings of acceleration? A sense of one's own mass?]
- darkerside 4y agoNot quite sensory deprivation. You certainly feel circadian rhythms and movement, and can likely hear talking and music.