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Alison Gopnik on Child Development, Elderhood, Caregiving, and A.I.

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The Developmental Strategy of Exploration and Exploration

There are counter examples of something like cephalopods who don't live for very long. So there's this question about what's going on, how are those kinds of creatures resolving these kinds of tensions? And I think there are other ways that you can do it. For example, instead of having a developmental division of labor where my young self is exploring and I'm exploiting, you could have a division of labor division of laborwhere some people are exploring and some people are exploiting. That seems to be what insects are doing, for example.

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