Babies, language and Star Trek!

Babies and sound

More important than eating for a baby is to learn.  This is almost unbelievable. However, if a baby does not eay it will be hungry for a few hours, but if a baby does not learn, its whole life it will be lost.  So deep in the programming of a baby is to learn, or rather to learn a language.

Babies respond to sound

Now when you shake your keys in front of a baby so it will stop crying you think the baby is just listening to a nice sound.

Let me tell you what is really going on.

Babies and Star Trek

Babies are thinking:  “Must identify sound”,  must analysis, must compute.   Prime directive is to analysis sound.  Must obey prime directive.

The baby tries to determine if the sound is important and if any recognizable pattern is contained in the sound.  This is their prime directive. More important then whatever is bothering them and making them cry at the moment.  This is the real reason baby’s get distracted with sound.  They are obeying the prime directive, that is learning a language.

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