Children with no outside contact will never progress. Even if they have contact from 20 other no-contact children, there will be no mental growth. Probably a lack of physical growth, as well. |
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I was having a thought earlier that I thought I'd like to share to the pit and gather answers to the question I bring. I thought of what life would be like if you took three year olds and put them in a single space with three rooms that didn't have doors in it. They lived here forever. There would be a group of maybe ten of them in the space. Food came from machines that are placed in bowls like a dog would eat from. The same goes with water. |
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Children with no outside contact will never progress. Even if they have contact from 20 other no-contact children, there will be no mental growth. Probably a lack of physical growth, as well. |
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They would have no coneption of life other than what was presented to them. Like a blind man from birth cannot percieve sight, these kids could not percieve ordinary life. They probably wouldn't develop language. Words were something that evolved out of necessity. If food was given, words wouldn't be needed. Besides, what would there be words for? There is nothing to relate them to, no philosophies established and few pertinent objects. A couple of sounds MAY be affiliated with certain concepts, but I would highly doubt even 100 of these would ever be used frequently to come about. A few dozen associated sounds would not be language. |
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Paul is Dead
Now all you have to do is write a decent proposal and the fundraising can begin |
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There's nurture and nature, and we both play a role for humanity. I wouldn't say NO mental growth............just a lack of it. |
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They would regress. It does happen occasionally, they are called feral children. No mental experiments needed, there have been case studies. |
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i think if one showed any leadership at all then a natural process of competition would take over, especially in a group of 10. eventually a language most likely constructed of facial expressions and low grunts would be worked out and the instinctual urge to explore each other's ding dongs and boobs would create a hostel environment ripe with social status |
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There is a story about people living in a cave some great philosopher wrote that is very appropriate for this thread. Now if I could only remember the philosopher and the title of the story... |
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In this case, however, there are multiple children in the same room. So, would it be appropriate to call them "feral children?" Also, if this was an experiment, this would be a significant study for many sociologist, and could give more data in regard to the support of micro-sociological theories such as Symbolic Interaction. |
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Last edited by malac; 10-01-2010 at 03:30 AM.
I stomp on your ideas.
I think 3 years old would be much too old. |
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