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quote: Donald Winnicott

• There is no such thing as a baby … if you set out to describe a baby, you will find you are describing a baby and someone.

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• what Winnicott says here is the essence of:
  • the Deep Humanity concepts of
    • the individual / collective gestalt and
    • human INTERbeCOMing,
  • the Buddhist concepts of:
    • emptiness,
    • non-duality in the human realm,
    • Indra's net of jewels in the human realm and
    • Thich Nhat Hahn's INTERbeing
  • complexity

• "“Protracted immaturity and dependence on paternal care
  • is not an unfortunate byproduct of our evolution
  • but instead a highly adaptive trait of our species,
  • which has enabled human infants to
    • efficiently organize attention to social agents and
    • learn efficiently from social output,”
• “The evolutionary goal of altricial species is
  • not to become highly competent as quickly as possible
  • but rather to excel at learning over time.”

• Michael Goldstein,
• Katerina Faust,
• Samantha Carouso-Peck
• Mary R. Elson

• forming a two-way system of feedback.

• infants of many species can change the behavior of their parents
• in ways that actively shape their own developments.

• "“Rather than requiring hard-wired, innate knowledge of social abilities, evolution has outsourced the necessary information to parents”
  • Authors
    • Michael Goldstein,
    • Katerina Faust,
    • Samantha Carouso-Peck
    • Mary R. Elson

• The Origins of Social Knowledge in Altricial Species,

• The Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, - -

• Dec, 2021

• Samantha Carouso-Peck and
• Mary R. Elson