Why Don't Babies Remember?
On Analogy, Meaning, and Worldliness
Douglas Hofstadter speculates that babies are unable to remember the past because they don’t yet have enough life experience on the basis of which to analogize from one thing to another. He writes:
Why do babies not remember events that happen to them?”…it has to do with the relentless, lifelong process of chunking — taking “small” concepts and putting t…
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