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Originally posted by jabidas:
Well initially a child thinks in terms of wants, you know I want more food, warmth and so forth. It dosnt really have what you would call thoughts, it is what freud dubbed the ID. They have no personality to speak of but they develop a personality when they have to learn how to deal with the rest of the world to get what they want. Initially this is visable in too ways the dominant demanding kind of requests and the sort of begging ones. You can see it much easier in toddlers I suppose, love is born out of perhaps dependancy, I dont know perhaps thats too cynical. Anyway the person develops as they grow older and learn how best to deal with the world. Does that help?
Well not really [img]smile.gif[/img] . I know what babies do at that age, and that they are into what they want and what they need, eg crying when they're hungry etc. What I'm interested in is
how and if they even DO process these wants into thoughts, or if they are simply responding to how they are feeling. Do they think "I'm hungry", obviously not in that way, since they don't have language, so how do they do it, if at all?