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Imagine, for example, a baby who is just beginning to crawl. In the middle of the room is a chair. This chair has a number of unchanging features. It is a particular shape, a particular weight, it is a particular height, in a particular position in space and so on. These features are fixed. The chair will remain the same shape, weight and height, unless forces external to the chair move it, or change its shape. The baby is smaller than the chair, it cannot sit on it and cannot move it. The baby will learn these things by interacting with the chair. However, after a period of time has passed, say six months, the baby will have grown significantly. In relation to the baby’s size and strength now, the chair has changed, for example the baby will be able move it, she may even try to sit on it. Obviously it is not the chair that has changed, it is the baby. Every so often the baby will return to the chair and to other household features she has calibrated her strength and height against, to check out her current calibration relationship with them.

Quote ID: 01833

Author

Bob Hughes

Source

Evolutionary Playwork

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