My counterargument, if I’m trying to play devil’s advocate, is that humans seem to notice this sort of thing in an online way. We don’t need to grow a 3x larger brain in order to notice and fix inconsistencies.
Having spent a lot of time attempting to explain things to my 3 year old children, I’m far from certain this is the case. No matter how many times we explain the difference between a city and a country, and when we go on a car, vs a plane she’ll ask as us right after a five hour flight whether we’re close to my work, which we usually go to on a one hour train.
My 5 year old groks all this intuitively, but there’s very little point explaining it to the 3 year old (even though she talks beautifully, and can understand all the sentences we say as standalone facts). At some point her brain will grow more sophisticated and she’ll grok all of this too.
I observed the same process with puzzles. No matter how many times I point out what corner pieces and edge pieces are, they simply cannot work out that a corner piece has to be next to an edge piece until they’re about 3. No amount of explaining or examples will help.
Having spent a lot of time attempting to explain things to my 3 year old children, I’m far from certain this is the case. No matter how many times we explain the difference between a city and a country, and when we go on a car, vs a plane she’ll ask as us right after a five hour flight whether we’re close to my work, which we usually go to on a one hour train.
My 5 year old groks all this intuitively, but there’s very little point explaining it to the 3 year old (even though she talks beautifully, and can understand all the sentences we say as standalone facts). At some point her brain will grow more sophisticated and she’ll grok all of this too.
I observed the same process with puzzles. No matter how many times I point out what corner pieces and edge pieces are, they simply cannot work out that a corner piece has to be next to an edge piece until they’re about 3. No amount of explaining or examples will help.