July 14, 2013
Babies grok quantum mechanics
The title of this article is misleading- according to the article itself, babies lose their "understanding" of QM when they learn to play Peekaboo.
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Well that possibly answers a couple of questions: what they think about once the brain is booted up in the womb, and what Einstein was doing until he decided to speak at 3 years old.
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I do recall groking a tree stump before I could even talk. But only after I actually put a fragment of the bark into my mouth was I suffused with understanding... Of what use is this to anyone? Yet it is the bedrock upon which I stand!