Seems an interesting conjecture, something to roll around more than answer. Although those are Kuhn words I was sharing.
I’m big on recognizing that interaction is the heart and soul of consciousness.
So if the baby can’t explain its theory, that’s proof that the baby isn’t operating on one?
And what about that little body with its innate expectations?
Is the body capable of operating on a theory?
Is homeostasis a part of consciousness?
I get the feeling that you have dualistic attitude towards consciousness, it’s on or it’s off, and that homeostasis is something else altogether.
Is that fair, or?
{Oh write, a couple weeks ago my wife had a knee replacement and during the post op the surgeon came in for a nice, un-rushed visit to check in, answer any questions, and such. I had the chance to ask him about your one time implication that the same dose of anesthesia is used for each human. First, he made a point of affirming he was a surgeon and not anesthesia (which after, is its own speciality requiring 12 - 14 years education before one can apply for a license.) still his response was: “wrong” - even simple nerve blocker regiments need to be tailored beyond the obvious weight/dosage adjustments.}
Oh and just thought of this little bit.
I get the feeling when you’re referring to a person, a human, you think of an individual.
I recognize the person, but I’m also cogently aware of the body that person inhabits (and that is key to that person’s experience of the world) as an evolutionary creature directly tied to it’s ancestors. I have the emotional experience memory of a living-dream of John J. Audubon Elementary being bombed out and burning around me, with an emotional immediacy that could only have come through my mother’s actual experiences. (That she never shared until we were grown. Though I was aware of her history and what happened in Europe.) So from 8 or 9 I’ve lived fully aware that my ancestors flow through my body. (Which was hugely magnified as I witnessed by daughter’s gestation and birth) Oh and that notion: “I could be there but for the grace of…”
That’s why I’m called the baby whisper, because when I pick up an infant there’s also an eye contact and a voice gently tickling it’s sensing organs that are ready to soak in everything you offer. Look at baby eyes, they are information sponges. The infant recognizes me as someone who recognizes it, and that changes everything because we’re doing things according to its little schedule (well with some direction). Is that kid working on a theory, I’ll bet it is. One theory being that it can totally trust me. And my task is to never break that trust, to the best of my ability. The holiness comes from the transcendence of time that an infant (<100 days) represents. We all started just like that, and have done so for hundred and thousands of, that experience is handed down through the body. At least for me that strand of time that runs through all of us is a real thing.
Now onto a totally different topic, one of the wonderful things some expert defined for me via YouTube is the two different kinds of learning.
Monkey see monkey do.
Which babies and all other humans are awesome at.
But that isn’t teaching.
TEACHING is about interaction,
“See these little bumps and holes on these blocks?” “Here let me show you.” He grabs pieces out of your hands and fumbles with them for a while. “Okay, you almost have it, check this out, this side on this side and slide and click. Here, your turn.” and so on …
It’s just a fun little trivia thing, but I’m glad I watched that particular video a few years back because it had me think about it as Li’l B got older and also becoming aware of just how well he was paying attention, and so on and so forth.
See for me it always comes back down to the real world, the sensual world of real people living our lives and dealing with our here & nows, while hopefully having some fun and doing a little good here and there. While philosopher are always busy impressing each other and just wanting to talk and write and ask questions that astound and provoke, but when it comes down to answers and pragmatic living, its lost in all the rush to the next latest and greatest idea for an answer to everything (Oh look, we’re back at Abrahamic thinking)