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Free to Learn - Peter Gray full lecture

Notus & Friends

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Bruce's Theory of Learning

Human beings are the species that have the most to learn. In fact, humans will even play into adulthood, which is fairly pretty rare for most other species of animals. So we all play socially. We all play at physical things. We all also all play at language. Language is truly a very true play. The earliest cooling and babbling of babies, if you ever watch it, is obviously playing. And the first use of words are not to get anything. They're just playful use of words. But what Bruce pointed out in addition for human beings is that there's an add-on to this instinctive drive to play. And that's also an instinct to look around and to

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