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The neuroscience of how we learn

Inquiring Minds

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We Have a Better Learning Device

I think this is one of the singularity of the human species. We have a better learning device. I don't know exactly how it works and so I do a lot of work in my lab at the moment on this topic. My colleague Elizabeth Spelker thinks, for instance, that NCS data to suggest that without a sort of long-wage of thought, you could not represent a thought like left of the green wall. This is the system that allows us to be scientists. But what I claim in the book is that every child is a scientist. We make scientific discoveries about the external world all the time during our childhood. We are able to formulate these very abstract thoughts in

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