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Alison Gopnik
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Cognitive scientist, philosopher, and psychologist at Berkeley, author of The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter and grandmother of six.
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If you’d like to independently investigate this for yourself, here’s one simple way:
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Find a baby and watch them (when they're not napping). What you will no doubt observe is a tiny human curiously exploring the world around them, playing with objects, making noises, imitating faces, and otherwise learning from interactions and experiences. "Studies suggest that children learn about the world in much the same way that scientists do— by conducting experiments, analyzing statistics, and forming intuitive theories of the physical, biological and psychological realms," the cognitive scientist Alison Gopnik notes, all before learning how to talk. Babies may not yet be able to use language, but of course they are thinking!
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Thanks to you , too, its a really excellent piece
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
alisongopnik.bsky.social
Thats great Melanie, and so well-deserved!
October 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM