Alison Gopnik's insight: babies learn like scientists. Tyler's question: are scientists actually good learners?
New episode on childhood cognition, the ‘intuitive apprenticeship’ model of teaching older kids, AI as a cultural technology, and why she thinks nature vs. nurture is a misleading framework.
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - How children—and scientists—learn
0:14:35 - Consciousness, episodic memories, and aphantasia
0:23:06 - Freud’s and Piaget’s theories about childhood
0:27:49 - Twin studies and nature vs. nurture
0:39:33 - Teaching strategies for younger vs. older children
0:44:07 - AI's ability to generate novel insights
0:53:57 - What Autism and ADHD diagnoses do and don’t reveal
0:58:02 - The success of the Gopnik siblings