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- From: stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU (x4604 (Hauskins))
- Newsgroups: ba.politics
- Subject: Re: More Child Molestors for Christ
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 06:47:13 GMT
- Organization: Santa Cruz
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- In article <1992Dec23.055754.12930@netcom.com> phil@netcom.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
- >In article <1h7pm8INNf3l@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU (x4604 (Hauskins)) writes:
- >Baby goes crawling around, comes to edge stops, smile goes
- >away, sensors report immediate increase in heart beat, respiration, muscle
- >tension and other "fear syndromes". It was a PBS Nova show.
- >
-
- So do animals- I am not sure it is what you call 'fear'. It may just
- be the ability to discern conditions not yet understood. If I did not
- know what glass was, and the flooring under me becuase clear, as in the
- case of glass, then I would simply think that I had reached the end
- of the solid flooring I was on. No fear, just understanding of what
- is occuring- ignorance does not always (or necessarily) cause or
- invoke fear processes. You are probably taught fear processes, since
- as the old saying goes 'there is nothing to fear, except fear itself'.
-
- >It also showed the grasping reflex (which goes away after 9 months), a reflex
- >involving a kind of toe curling that also goes away (and can be used to
- >determine age boundaries on babies with unknown birth dates), and the
- >really incredible diving reflex.
- >
- >I think just the most recent issue of Sci. Amer. (not double checked) had
- >an article on the abilities of very young babies to both count and to
- >distinguish phoenemes in foreign languages (that they later lose).
- >
-
-
- Keep in mind that the studies may only reflect what a research thinks
- they see. It has been stated that apes etc. can do the same counting
- tricks etc. but that may not be the case at all, since we just don;t
- know what is going on. It is our own knowledge which shapes what
- we think we see in the outside world.
-
-