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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

We argue that core knowledge — which is canonically considered *conceptual* (or at least non-perceptual) in nature — is best explained as part of *perception*. In other words, we think that infants’ early conceptual knowledge about the world should be reframed as sophisticated forms of seeing. [2/5]

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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Why think this? We show a striking and consistent overlap between (1) core representations found in infants, and (2) representations found in ‘high-level’ adult vision. Specifically, core representations display empirical signatures of perception in adults: automatic, encapsulated, and so on. [3/5]

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Dawei Bai @daweibai.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

From physics to even the social domain, we consistently find this pattern: core knowledge representations also guide visual processing of objects, number, geometry, agents, etc, suggesting that these two are the same thing — perceptual mechanisms shared by infants and adults. [4/5]

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