Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Crossing the experiments: a baby - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 07 August 2013 06:51:56AM *  9 points [-]

Though she'll be very boring for several months yet.

Not in the least. In the first month if you look closely you can literally see one brain module come online after the other. And I don't mean only those as in Hetty van de Rijt "The Wonder Weeks" which I was looking for (and which did not exactly fit with my children). In the first month you will continuously notice new abilities like focuing, turning, griping, smooth motions, detecting sound direction, gazing, interest in sound, lighting, form, .......

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 07 August 2013 09:24:40AM 3 points [-]

I'll look out for those!

Comment author: David_Gerard 07 August 2013 11:01:33AM *  5 points [-]

It'll give you insight into just how spectacularly many different fragments go into the thing we attempt to generalise as the term "intelligence", as much as we foolishly pretend that this is usable as a handle on a single concept.