What is it like to be a person who knows nothing? Defining the active intersubjective mind of a newborn human being

Abstract

Abstract:As thinking adults depend upon years of practical experience, reasoning about facts and causes, and language to sustain their knowledge, beliefs and memories, and to understand one another, it seems quite absurd to suggest that a newborn infant has intersubjective mental capacities. But detailed research on how neonatal selves coordinate the rhythms of their movements and senses, and how they engage in intimate and seductive precision with other persons' movements, sensing their purposes and feelings, gives evidence that it is so. The developmental and functional neuroscience of the human brain agrees. Indeed it seems that cultural intelligence itself is motivated at every stage by the kind of powers of innate intersubjective sympathy that an alert infant can show shortly after birth. We are born to generate shifting states of self-awareness, to show them to other persons, and to provoke interest and affectionate responses from them. Thus starts a new psychology of the creativity and cooperative knowing and meaning in human communities."An objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behaviour, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience. The result, in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analysed by the neurologist. But the experience of the organism is integrated, organised, and has its meaning in terms of coordinated movement."

Habilidade de comunicação intencional de bebês: o que pensam as mães?

“…Diante disso, foi possível identificar variações dessas percepções considerando-se a idade do bebê e as habilidades específicas de cada período do desenvolvimento. Verificou-se (Brazelton, 1994;Rochat, 2009;Seidl-de-Moura et al, 2004;Stephen, Dunlop, & Trevarthen, 2003;Striano & Rochat, 1999;Trevarthen, 2011), um dos principais comportamentos comunicativos do bebê, desde o nascimento, é o choro. Todavia, o processo de reequipamento da criança permite que novas habilidades sejam construídas e aprimoradas, possibilitando que os bebês utilizem comportamentos mais sofisticados e intencionais (Vygotsky & Luria, 1996).…”

“…Desta forma, a relação do bebê com outras pessoas e a intersubjetividade possibilitam seu desenvolvimento e relação com o mundo (Gratier & Trevarthen, 2007;Nogueira & Seidl-de-Moura, 2007;Reznick, 1999;Trevarthen, 1979Trevarthen, , 2011. Laakso, Poikkeus, Katajamäki e Lyytinen (1999) corroboram o pressuposto de que o período em torno do primeiro ano de vida é crítico para o desenvolvimento de intenções comunicativas e sinais convencionais.…”

Homo polyglottus: Semiosphere as a model of human cognition

“…Th e thesis of the inherent dialogic predisposition of humans is supported by the recent studies of infant communication (see, e.g., Trevarthen 2011;Zlatev, Andrén 2009;Tomasello 1999). Lotman himself (inspired by a 1978 article of John Newson) 3 refers to the situation when the need for dialogue between the mother and her newborn child creates unique messages and languages.…”

“Mãe Acha que Bebê Sente Tudo, né?”: Concepções Maternas sobre Habilidades Socioemocionais e Comunicativas Infantis

“…Semelhante aos resultados aqui encontrados, a literatura mostra que desde tenra idade os bebês têm capacidade de identificar, nos outros, algumas expressões faciais que estão associadas às emoções (Mendes & Seidl-de-Moura, 2009;Nelson & Horowitz, 1983;Trevarthen, 2011). Cleveland et al (2007 defendem que, com apenas 3 meses, os bebês parecem reagir de acordo com as emoções e os comportamentos do adulto, inclusive com os movimentos de direção do olhar.…”