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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Did the Primates Do That Also?
The way people have sort of thought about this for infants is by looking at what infants look at, right? Because that's a behavior that we can measure. So the fact that they discriminate those two cases and how long they look tells us something about what their expectations are about the way the world works. Now, does it tell us what they're explaining? This is now much more controversial. But at least some of the people who do this research have suggested that part of what's going on when infants observe these cases is that they try to construct an explanation for what they observed.
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