Thinking of some of the ways in which young kids (say, a 7 year-old) experience reality radically differently from adults. Late stages of development (and memories of going through them) are full of important insights about cognition
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Another big one is presence and embodiment. The things you see and the things you don't see. Kids tend to be pretty focused on their immediate environment and the sensorimotor affordances it enables. Adult cognition is much more abstract and less embodied.
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Adults have their minds full of abstractions: other people and their mental states, future planning and worries, past memories... adults exist on a much wider plane, mostly made of non-things, or things that aren't here and now. They glaze over their surroundings.
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There's a quote by Alan Watts -- "this is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play". In that view, kids have life figured out. But then they forget.
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Not sure on this perspective, however you have an idea about the big/small idiom
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Yet you experience the same physical laws of course. Which probably is more important in building a kind of model of the world.
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