A baby does not think of something that is not in the room. A baby doesn’t have a timeline to draw from. In order to have a “past,” patterns and memory need conceptual containers. Vessels that can retain the world as a set of abstract thought patterns that is meaningful and inter-related.
The child is learning to network complex streams of information systematically, as an internet-like construct. The vessels of which I speak of are Words. Words contain memory. Words are a kind of box that hold the past, the same boxes we open during Dreamtime and innerdance to look at what we stored within and around them. Where it was Piaget who took note of the importance of how children speak to themselves aloud, it was Lev Vygotsky who documented “Ego-centric Speech,” a half-way house between the time children speak out loud to themselves to the time they have successfully internalized their language. |
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