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No 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.
by pharrington 4y ago
No 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.