The question is not one of the supernatural, I would suggest, but of the true scope and nature of the natural.

In response to Bee's observations about the repeating patterns of cognitive stages in maturing humans, I have no problem with them. They do not, however, speak to the point I was making. The development of complex response patterns, including language complexities, is an ongoing curve in all humans, and it doesn't surprise me that the patterns within one culture are repeating. I wouldn't be surprised if children in other cultures, left to their own devices, also go through similar phases.

The difference comes into play the day the child makes an original joke, or offers you an insight you did not think of yourself. More important, comes up with an original thought.
Of course, the mechanist school claims that all such complications and pretenses of individual creativity are just recombinant elements of culture and perception in the physical universe, not creations. And they are right with respect to a huge volume of traffic which really is just the dramatization of combinations of tired old memes

But once a while, one soul or another will break out with an original thought and astonish folks for a bref momoent as they scuttle to get their wits around such a thing. Holy, moly!!

That's the break-point in the program for me.


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