[MD] Speed of Lighting, Roar of thunder...

[craigerb at comcast.net]

Give a non-linguistic, untrained kitten a ball of yarn & it will play with the ball to the exclusion of
everything else.  Later if it catches a mouse, it will exhibit this same behavior.
Give a pre-linguistic, untrained infant a novel toy & s/he will treat it similarly, as an integrated whole.
If it is dropped among other things, it will be picked out.
Put the infant in a room with a climbing structure & a mural of that same structure, the infant will only
try to climb the former.  Doesn't that show s/he is thinking of them differently?
Craig