Two-month-old babies can already distinguish living things from objects. Not behaviourally — neurally. The fMRI data is unambiguous.

But the stranger finding is where in the brain it happens: in the high-level visual cortex, before the intermediate processing areas have organised themselves.

Development, it turns out, doesn't go from simple to complex. It goes the other way.

New post explores what this means for Piaget, Vygotsky, AI, and the hard problem of consciousness.

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