Lying is one of the earliest things children do upon communicating effectively with caregivers. Even prior to learning whatever the mother-tongue will be, babies can lie. It’s part of play. Built in.
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Well hang on.. no, it’s not built in. I’m wrong. It’s learned and passed down.
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Adults start the play, introduce the lie.
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Do mother animals play with their babies prior to their play with social mates?
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Indeed – and my default answer which I forget sometimes with nature/nurture is either “both” or “it’s embodied”
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embodiment includes situated environment which automatically includes parents, playmates, etc.
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Had to look up again as “very familiar name” (more so than the other with the x in it) and found Mead who I am familiar with. Their view of cybernetics was very rational.
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How interesting. I’m looking through and Bateson was always on the perhiphery for me whereas Mead was forefront. Yet I knew her husband was the cyberneticist and systems focus and she was the cultural anthropology one, although they each supported each other.
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I’m mentally going back to 1990/91 to linguistics, development psychology, anthropology etc and to documentaries I watched with my grandmother as a teenager so it was deep reaching to find the names.
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