Cognition & AI
Your Baby Predicts the Crash
Infants do more than watch objects fall. Their brains build predictions about the physical world — and curiosity helps tune the model.
Tag: Intuitive Physics
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Cognition & AI
Causality Is Hardware, Not Software
A four-month-old staring at a teleporting ball isn't just cute — it's running a physics engine no language model was ever given. Here's why human causal cognition is a vertical stack, and AI only has the top floor.
Embodied Cognition & AI
Poke It and See: The Causal Reasoning Superpower That Makes Children Better Scientists Than AI
Children are intuitive causal scientists — they poke, tilt, and intervene to figure out why things happen. AI systems, despite their power, still can't quite do this. Here's why the gap matters.
