Half the papers on multimodal learning refer to studies on human children learning. Makes me wonder why we never study animals to know how their multimodal learning works so fucking well that some newborns can function straight out of the womb/egg.

Sounds like a new side project for you to me.

@C0D4 side? SIDE??? It could be an entire doctorate dissertation. 😝

It's actually the other way around.
Because of the size of our heads, we are born earlier than we should, so that our mother won't die. That's why we can't walk straight out of the womb like deers.

ok fine, do you accept the challenge @NoMad?

@C0D4 nope 😛 that needs bio background which neither do I have nor I like. I'm all for someone else suggesting their bio inspired design and me implementing it tho.

@c3r38r170 that's very interesting!

@c3r38r170 so what you're saying is if they took a newborn and put it in an *artificial womb* till the age that children typically walk, and then birthed it again, the kid would be born able to walk?

That would be a fascinating but unethical study in nature vs nurture.

@Wisecrack Nah it wouldn't work. It ain't that simple.

@Wisecrack if you do that for a few thousand years and for all the parents, then maybe 😛

When I was born the first thing I knew how to do was pee in my mother’s face...true story lol