Lynn Malcolm
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10,377 appearances
177 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2006
last heard Dec 2020
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And you've also done some work looking at how children behave as if they're a scientist.
They run hypotheses, they test hypotheses.
Just give me an example of what you've seen children
Professor Alison Gopnik.
And there's no denying that this is a distinctly scientific discussion between three-year-old Finn and his science broadcaster dad, Joel Werner.
Yeah.
Chief troll investigators Joel Werner and his son Finn.
You're with All in the Mind on RN.
I'm Lynn Malcolm.
Today delving into the mind of an infant.
Alison Gopnick, professor in psychology and philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, studies how babies and young children's minds work.
In fact, she likens children's brains to the most powerful computers on the planet.
So you are observing the way children think and applying that to develop more
And you've suggested that babies or young children and adults have a different style of consciousness.
Can you describe that different style?
So human children have a much longer period of being dependent and helpless almost than other species.
What can evolution tell us about the value of having this really extended dependency?
So there's a really good argument for allowing children to be children for as long as they need to be.
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