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Why "self-generated learning” may be more radical and consequential than first appears

Speaker: Linda Smith

Location: 6 Washington Place, Room 121

Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023

Humans (as well as other biological organisms)  are active agents in their own learning.  They move multiple sensors to optimize or dampen sensory information; they physically interact in the world in extended contexts that sample and resample related contents in the service of extended goals; they explore and form mini experiments on the physical and social world to find out what they do not know.   In this talk, I will present evidence (and briefly, models) on the first-person experiences of human infants  in the wild of everyday life that implicate new ideas about the nature of human intelligence  and the origins of far generalization and innovation.