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>You won't find a two year old child carrying around two items for future assembly and use. You are possibly underestimating two year old humans.
by fooker 4y ago
>You won't find a two year old child carrying around two items for future assembly and use.
You are possibly underestimating two year old humans.
- pharrington 4y agoNo hyperbole, if your two year child is improvisationally deploying tools to use for long term plans, I'm pretty sure they're the next Einstein.
- fooker 4y agoTools doesn't mean a chainsaw or a drill here. It can be something like a spoon, a piece of rope. Lego pieces, for example, are designed to cater to instinctual tool use in human kids.
- pharrington 4y agoI probably didn't explain myself very well, but I do mean improvisational and long term. I haven't seen 2 year olds plan more than like a minute ahead, and they definitely need to be taught how to manipulate even the most basic objects (beyond simply putting the thing in their mouth). A four year old human certainly does those things, but the comparison is with octopuses, whose typical lifespan is less than 4 years.