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  1. Sep 2023
    1. ‘There is no such thing as a baby … if you set out to describe a baby, you will find you are describing a baby and someone.’
      • for: Donald Winnicott, quote, quote - Donald Winnicott, quote - human INTERbeing, human INTERbeing, human INTERbeCOMing, white - humans INTERbeCOMing, DH, Deep Humanity, altricial, mOTHER, non-duality

      • quote: Donald Winnicott

        • There is no such thing as a baby … if you set out to describe a baby, you will find you are describing a baby and someone.
      • comment

        • what Winnicott says here is the essence of:
          • the Deep Humanity concepts of
            • the individual / collective gestalt and
            • human INTERbeCOMing,
          • the Buddhist concepts of:
            • emptiness,
            • non-duality in the human realm,
            • Indra's net of jewels in the human realm and
            • Thich Nhat Hahn's INTERbeing
          • complexity
  2. May 2023
    1. “Protracted immaturity and dependence on paternal care is not an unfortunate byproduct of our evolution but instead a highly adaptive trait of our species, which has enabled human infants to efficiently organize attention to social agents and learn efficiently from social output
      • Quote worthy
        • "“Protracted immaturity and dependence on paternal care
          • is not an unfortunate byproduct of our evolution
          • but instead a highly adaptive trait of our species,
          • which has enabled human infants to
            • efficiently organize attention to social agents and
            • learn efficiently from social output,”
        • “The evolutionary goal of altricial species is
          • not to become highly competent as quickly as possible
          • but rather to excel at learning over time.”
      • Authors
        • Michael Goldstein,
        • Katerina Faust,
        • Samantha Carouso-Peck
        • Mary R. Elson
    2. the beauty of perceptual immaturity in altricial species is that it makes learning easier by reducing the complexity of the world
      • the beauty of perceptual immaturity in altricial species is that
      • it makes learning easier by reducing the complexity of the world,” the researchers wrote.
      • Parents are key to altricial learning, Goldstein said,
        • forming a two-way system of feedback.
      • Far from being passive recipients, he said,
        • infants of many species can change the behavior of their parents
        • in ways that actively shape their own developments.
    3. “Rather than requiring hard-wired, innate knowledge of social abilities, evolution has outsourced the necessary information to parents,”
      • Quote worthy
        • "“Rather than requiring hard-wired, innate knowledge of social abilities, evolution has outsourced the necessary information to parents”
          • Authors
            • Michael Goldstein,
            • Katerina Faust,
            • Samantha Carouso-Peck
            • Mary R. Elson
      • Title
        • The Origins of Social Knowledge in Altricial Species,
      • Journal
        • The Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, - -
      • Publication Date
        • Dec, 2021
      • Authors
      • Michael Goldstein,
      • Katerina Faust,
        • Samantha Carouso-Peck and
        • Mary R. Elson