[extropy-chat] experimentation in young humans

[The Avantguardian]

--- spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
 
> I witnessed an interesting experiment performed by
> my two month old son.  He
> was in his bouncy chair, which has a favored rattle
> toy suspended above it.
> He gazed intently at the toy, then suddenly
> commented YEEEARG and swung his
> arm, which hit the rattle and made a most delightful
> noise.  (He loves
> noise.  This bodes ill.)  For the next several
> minutes he YEEEARGed and
> batted the toy.  Then he tried YEEEARGing without
> swinging the arm.  No
> rattley noise.  So he tried swinging the arm without
> YEEEARGing.  Rattley
> noise.  He discovered he needs to only swing the
> arm, and the magic word
> YEEEARG is unnecessary.  At two months he has
> discovered the value of
> experimentation and evidence based living.

LOL. I am glad your son is measuring up to his design
specs, Spike. Ain't it wondrous? :) 

Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"The 'I' is an illusion but that illusion needs to be experienced, and it is only by experience that it can be known as an illusion."

- Shankarachanya

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