[lbo-talk] Baby thoughts

[Chuck Grimes]

The idea of an individual baby discovering the world as like the
activity of science is basically the error in the positivist model of
the scientific process... CB

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Science proper is of course a collective activity, maybe one of the most
collective of all. On the other hand nobody can teach a baby to walk,
nobody teaches them to talk. They do those on their own. Where I think
the collective or social body comes into play is the child's
overwhelming need to be within that embrace. That's the motivation that
drives much of the learning and figuring out.

So then all the touching and handling and the speech parents do is the
social body that in turn creates the universe within which walking and
talking occur. Even so, the baby has to perform by themselves.

CG