[ExI] oddity - learn to walk? nah

[William Flynn Wallace]

Yeah cool.  As far as I know, I am the only person to make this
observation.  Good to see you back!   bill w

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 4:53 PM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Very, very cool. I did not know this at all.
>
> SR Ballard
>
> On Mar 3, 2021, at 5:29 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> 
> Walking is the only behavior that meets most of the specific criteria for
> an instinct (fixed action pattern) (only the sign stimulus could be said to
> be lacking):
>
> 1 - unlearned
> 2 - species specific (like baby ducks following Lorenz)
> 3 - highly stereotyped (this requirement keeps many so-called behaviors
> from being instincts - most human behaviors vary widely)
> 4 - found in all species members
> 5 - released by a sign stimulus
> 6 -complex - not just a reflex
>
> When the sinews and muscles are ready, the kid will walk- hard-wired.  A
> beginning toddler does the best he can with muscles and sinews not fully
> ready for walking.  I knew a person who did not walk at the usual time, but
> he crawled with a great deal of ability.  When, as his mother related,
> another kid hit him and he could not catch him, he got up and ran.  No
> practice at walking or running.
>
> Blind children walk at the same time as sighted children.  Kids who ride
> their mothers' backs all day long walk at the same time as kids who play in
> the dirt all day.
>
> Learn to walk?  Nah     bill w
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