This Alison Gopnik Ted talk on how babies think is great. Her book The Philosophical Baby, has been on my to-read pile for too long. Gotta move it up the queue.
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I’m down YouTube bunny trail of how babies think. Patricia Kuhn on language acquisition. Babies are apparently “celestially open” global citizens in sound statistics terms until 6-8 months. Trumpie ethnonationalism is just adulthood. ted.com/talks/patricia
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Now watching. Laura Schulz, on logical reasoning in babies. I’m now wondering if baby cognition research is almost entirely done by women. Makes sense 🤔
ted.com/talks/laura_sc
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Have you read her large Hume article in The Atlantic (and the paper it's about)? It is extraordinary.
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Fascinating and very curious. I’d noticed the parallels between Hume and Buddhist thought too, but never bothered to look. I’d kinda la ily assumed Schopenhauer was the main east-west bridge 🤔
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I'm happy you like it.
Curiously the first significant La Flèche connection is Leibniz. He came across the I Ching via another Jesuit from there.
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Another angle I love about this:
Buddhism -> Jesuits -> Hume -> Adam Smith -> Darwin -> BOOM
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Lol, that might be overstating the case for path-dependence-from-golden-age a teeny bit, substituting a Buddhist origin mythology for everything rather than Greek 🙂

