And there's been a bunch of interesting studies recently that have shown this playing around is really a kind of experimental research program. 最近有很多有意思的研究显示了孩子的随意尝试，的确可以作为一个研究项目。 Here's one from Cris
What is going on in this baby's mind? If you'd asked people this 30 years ago, 这位宝宝在想什么？如果你在30年前问这个问题， most people, including psychologists, would have said that this baby was irrational, illogical, e
If this is true, if these babies are designed to learn -- and this evolutionary story would say children are for learning, that's what they're for -- 如果第二种解释是真的。那这些小宝宝天生就是学习的料，从进化论来看，他们天生就在学习，学习就是他们的本
Well if we want to think about a way of getting a taste of that kind of baby consciousness as adults, 如果我们大人也想体验一下小孩的那种知觉， I think the best thing is think about cases where we're put in a new situatio
So to test this we used a machine that we have called the Blicket Detector. 为了证明这个观点，我们用了一个叫做玩具侦探的仪器。 This is a box that lights up and plays music when you put some things on it and not others. 如果你在这个
And sort of the posterbirds for this idea are the birds up there. 图片上的鸟可以证明这个观点。 On one side is a New Caledonian crow. And crows and other corvidae, ravens, rooks and so forth, are incredibly smart bi
Well, what's it like to be this kind of creature? What's it like to be one of these brilliant butterflies who can test five hypotheses in two minutes? 当小孩子是什么样一种经历呢？像那些聪明的蝴蝶一样，在两分钟内测试五个假设？ Well, if yo
So the question is: What would the baby give her, what they liked or what she liked? 但大家都想知道：宝宝会给她什么，是贝蒂喜欢的还是自己喜欢的？ And the remarkable thing was that 18 month-old babies, just barely walking and talki
All right, why would we see this correlation? 我们为什么看到这样的一个关联？ Well an idea is that that strategy, that learning strategy, is an extremely powerful, great strategy for getting on in the world, but it h
