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I haven't been able to stop thinking about this.
It's heartbreaking, and humanity should learn a lot from it.
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I haven't been able to stop thinking about this.
It's heartbreaking, and humanity should learn a lot from it.
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I read a portion of @davideagleman's new book "Livewired" which includes Danielle Crockett's story.
She had no genetic problems, but her brain development was derailed by severe social deprivation for 7 years.
"She missed the critical window for proper input from the world."
She had no genetic problems, but her brain development was derailed by severe social deprivation for 7 years.
"She missed the critical window for proper input from the world."
"A feral child (also called wild child) is a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age, and so has had little or no experience of human care, behavior or human language."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_chi…
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_chi…
Feral children can:
- Be unable to use a toilet, chew solid food, or even nod yes/no
- Have trouble learning to walk upright after walking on all fours
- Display a complete lack of interest in human activity
- Tend to imitate animals when raised by them (sounds, behaviors)
- Be unable to use a toilet, chew solid food, or even nod yes/no
- Have trouble learning to walk upright after walking on all fours
- Display a complete lack of interest in human activity
- Tend to imitate animals when raised by them (sounds, behaviors)
"The human brain arrives in the world unfinished. Proper development requires proper input.
The brain absorbs experience to unpack its programs, and only during a rapidly closing window of time.
(If) missed, it is difficult or impossible to reopen."
— @davideagleman
The brain absorbs experience to unpack its programs, and only during a rapidly closing window of time.
(If) missed, it is difficult or impossible to reopen."
— @davideagleman
"Mother Nature's strategy of unpacking a brain relies on proper world experience.
Without it, the brain becomes malformed and pathological.
Like a tree that needs nutrient-rich soil ... a brain requires the rich soil of social and sensory interaction."
— @davideagleman
Without it, the brain becomes malformed and pathological.
Like a tree that needs nutrient-rich soil ... a brain requires the rich soil of social and sensory interaction."
— @davideagleman
All of this makes me think that the "water" in "This is Water" by David Foster Wallace is actually...
Everything.
All experience. All culture. All everything.
sloww.co/this-is-water-…
Everything.
All experience. All culture. All everything.
sloww.co/this-is-water-…
Is everything really imitation (desires, ideas, behaviors, etc)?
https://twitter.com/SlowwCo/status/1301242998148091904
It also makes me think about theories of humanity's psychological evolution through our collective history.
What is progress (and is it real)?
"We are the same at birth that we used to be, but in a sense, we progress by the rise of the pedestal of the social heritage."
— Will & Ariel Durant
sloww.co/lessons-of-his…
"We are the same at birth that we used to be, but in a sense, we progress by the rise of the pedestal of the social heritage."
— Will & Ariel Durant
sloww.co/lessons-of-his…
Questions:
- How much cultural deprogramming is actually possible? You don't deprogram your language (which affects your thinking).
- What psychotechnologies (like language) don't even exist yet?
- How can all this be used for good? Change the programming, change the humans.
- How much cultural deprogramming is actually possible? You don't deprogram your language (which affects your thinking).
- What psychotechnologies (like language) don't even exist yet?
- How can all this be used for good? Change the programming, change the humans.
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