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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: When is a simulation of a Y a Y? (Was Bag the Turing
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Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 17:20:47 GMT
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In article <3f71sm$sth@tadpole.fc.hp.com> allsop@fc.hp.com writes:
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>Marvin said:
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>> The psychologist Piaget found that it takes ten years or
>> more for children to refine their abilities to imagine how the same
>> scene will appear from different viewpoints.

I don't think this is generally accepted nowadays.  See e.g.
Margaret Donaldson's _Childrens Minds_ (something like that).
The idea seems to be that children can do better than in
Piaget's experiements if the setup is more familiar to them.

-- jd

