yeah imagine a world in which infants
are trying to make sense of everything
the sight of a face smiling and a voice
talking with a silly-billy
all of those senses are awakened alive
to me that’s genius
we all are walking around with brains
that got forged early in development our
brains come ready to learn but they’re
not completely formed the infant brain
is coding all the time they’re trying to
understand what are the signals that
mean I’m going to be fed what are the
signals that mean I’m going to be loved
and touched the baby’s learning that
when I give the merest hint of a smile
my parents go gaga diva look here Felix
their computational geniuses but this
computational genius takes place through
the social channel that codes the most
frequent things that happen in their
world and built into that is the drive
to do the things that we do so that can
be like us we evolve to make the
littlest citizens in the world grow into
the full potential adults they become
and the way to do that is to supply
innate curiosity and to start with a
brain and senses and cognition that’s
ready to go on day one Kant said give me
the type of same as you
okay his hand on it first
yeah and we tap it as adults we have
lost some of the creativity of youth we
are not the baby walking down the street
enamored by the picket fence and the bus
with this wide open mind that the poet’s
used to talk about we have narrowed our
views we’re less enthralled by novelty
in fact our brains tend to keep us on
the narrow in the box thinking and we
can already see the decline in the
ability to learn like that at seven
there are many ways that we’ve tried to
understand what it means to be human you
can study cave art you can look at the
heavens and I think one of the best ways
is to look at a baby and understand how
that baby comes together we all
developed we all had a childhood and it
indelibly affected who we are today
you
are trying to make sense of everything
the sight of a face smiling and a voice
talking with a silly-billy
all of those senses are awakened alive
to me that’s genius
we all are walking around with brains
that got forged early in development our
brains come ready to learn but they’re
not completely formed the infant brain
is coding all the time they’re trying to
understand what are the signals that
mean I’m going to be fed what are the
signals that mean I’m going to be loved
and touched the baby’s learning that
when I give the merest hint of a smile
my parents go gaga diva look here Felix
their computational geniuses but this
computational genius takes place through
the social channel that codes the most
frequent things that happen in their
world and built into that is the drive
to do the things that we do so that can
be like us we evolve to make the
littlest citizens in the world grow into
the full potential adults they become
and the way to do that is to supply
innate curiosity and to start with a
brain and senses and cognition that’s
ready to go on day one Kant said give me
the type of same as you
okay his hand on it first
yeah and we tap it as adults we have
lost some of the creativity of youth we
are not the baby walking down the street
enamored by the picket fence and the bus
with this wide open mind that the poet’s
used to talk about we have narrowed our
views we’re less enthralled by novelty
in fact our brains tend to keep us on
the narrow in the box thinking and we
can already see the decline in the
ability to learn like that at seven
there are many ways that we’ve tried to
understand what it means to be human you
can study cave art you can look at the
heavens and I think one of the best ways
is to look at a baby and understand how
that baby comes together we all
developed we all had a childhood and it
indelibly affected who we are today
you
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