AT FIRST blush, babies seem mostly preoccupied with more mundane biological processes, like eating and pooping and spitting up all over your shirt.
This fooled a lot of researchers into believing that babies weren’t thinking about anything at all. Scientists coined the term “tabula rasa” - blank slate - to describe these “empty” creatures. They regarded infants as merely helpless helpings of cute, controllable, human potential.
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