Okay I was specifically thinking in utero, although vibs between parents matter, so point taken.
No, that isn’t what I was thinking about, it’s way more subtle. I think emotionally charged memories leave imprints that influence the lens through which we process incoming data. More like cellular memory.
Of course the days race by once a child is born, and those imprints get reinforced with more concrete memories directly received from caregivers.
That’s what I’m trying to figure out, what is this “worldview” is supposed to entail? What is missing?
As for the cause - prerequisite to grasping that requires developing deep appreciation for the fact of evolution and the reality that living bodies possess the cumulative total of a half billion years worth of generations within them.
Furthermore, we have the mammals to learn from. When I look at the mammalian kingdom of animals, those babies must have a “worldview” considering how fast they can step up to self survival skills.
How do they do it? I don’t know, but we witness it in action.
A human baby is different because a good portion of its gestation occurs outside of the womb. But still to hear people tell me an infant has no worldview, it sounds like they are saying a baby is a blank slate. Which doesn’t make any biological sense when viewed against the backdrop of biological evolution and what we witness in other mammals.
Not to mention what I see and experience when I look into an infants eyes along with the following exchanges between us.
Okay thanks for the clarification. My unschooled mind considers infants mainly as that first 100± day stage, baby taking over from there, by three years old, seems to me the toddler stage is already well underway. Thanks for the clarification, I’ll try to keep it in mind.
Although that muddles up this “worldview” concept even more, considering the amazing changes and development that happens in the first year, let alone those first three years.
That’s the blasé of a clinician, I guess.
To someone attentive to the moment and attached to the child, it is miracle in action, watching those eyes track and react to various stimuli. Seeing how much they are actually aware of that most other totally miss.
Watching that those eyes pay attention and mimic others, etc., etc.. But I guess that’s why other’s have hung the moniker ‘baby whisper’ onto me, since I am totally enthralled, and infants picks up on it and relationship ensues. May not be philosophical acceptable, but from a humanistic (Earth-centrist) real world perspective, it’s a peak of experience, if one can tune into it.
Until they wake up from their birth sleep. After that the world is what is in front of them, and yes they do engage, though it’s of the subtle variety, well until they want something, then they know how to get the attention of even the most disinterested. That says something about their awareness - doesn’t it?
Oh boy now there’s path to the abyss. 