Follow up to Kris’s recent post on Alison Gopnik, child development psychologist, philosopher, author, and frequent media guest, who teaches at Cal Berkeley: a TED talk by her which has been viewed 2.5M times, so far.
“Babies and young children are like the R&D division of the human species,” says psychologist Alison Gopnik. Her research explores the sophisticated intelligence-gathering and decision-making that babies are really doing when they play.
The Gardener and the Carpenter discussed in Kris’s post is a more current version of Alison’s thoughts than the TED talk which is from 2011. PSA also referenced Alison in a post on similar themes from last fall, noting an Oct 2015 article in the Atlantic she wrote called:
David Hume, the Buddha, and a search for the Eastern roots of the Western Enlightenment:
How an 18th-Century Philosopher Helped Solve My Midlife Crisis:
Clearly one of those thinkers that bridges silos, excites out of the box thinking, and has much to say.