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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 11 November 2014 01:40:09PM *  0 points [-]

I don't want to speak for SolveIt, but "result of computation" presupposes a different outcome for a counterfactually different computation input. Which is a very important difference between equality and what I call "imperative assignment."

But I agree that kids natively perceiving [equations as a symbol game] vs [equations as causal systems] are different hypotheses, and we ought to be able to test which is correct.