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Cognative Poetry
When the firstborn from his mother's womb eject,
What would his first thoughts be, if he can think?
Will it be 'what things will I learn?'
For after the firstday of the firstborn
He has already learned to sleep
And after countless nights of terror
Crying insanity into the night and his parents
He will learn that he can wake up, and thus ends his existential horror
In the next months, he will find
That he can percieve things with his little body,
He turns himself into a small instrument, tasting, touching, and tearing at everything
Next he find he can clench his fists, but it will be several more years
Before he could willingly unclench them.
Until then, it is not a good idea to give them things to hold onto.
And so it goes on, each day, each night
At two years of age, he will learn to speak
That his can construct sounds, and imbue those sounds with meaning
But before that time he would have made far more interesting discoveries:
1) That it is useful to remember things that has happened before,
Because he can't remember things that hasn't happened yet.
But unfortunately, there are still many things he didn't bother to remember
From this humble beginning comes memory
And from memory learning.
No longer bound just to the instinct,
the newborn feels the past, and grope at a hidden future
2) That things he saw before,
But do not see currently
Did not dissappear neccessarily.
And here the child can learn two lessons (although ususally, one only learns one)
Firstly, things he does not see exists outside of him,
Secondly, that he has a past and a memory
That might or might not repeat, or remain valid
3) That he occupies space, and other things occupy space.
That his space and the space of another thing cannot be the same thing at the same time
That one thing, and another thing are seperated by distance, which is really space occupied by invisible air (although he couldn't know this at the time)
That he can change this distance, and modify things, by moving his own space, using biological functions he is not aware of
This astute observation might be the result of countless obtuse excursions;
Of many bumps, falls, pain, and crawling-into-walls collisions
But after, what a wonder he will feel!
Having command of space and distance, his terrible twos will now be more interesting
And so on, and so forth, and so goes the beginnings of a human being
In time, the terrible and new things a baby learns will become mundane and unnoticable
And no one will remember the wonder and complexity
That came with discovering these quantum leaps of intellectual capacity
Those simple milestones that gave us broad new ranges of abilities.
But maybe they are not all gone, and we can still find them,
What simple wonders and elementary mysteries,
Have lie undisturbed beneath the nose of intellect
That we have yet to discover?
When the firstborn from his mother's womb eject,
What would his first thoughts be, if he can think?
Will it be 'what things will I learn?'
For after the firstday of the firstborn
He has already learned to sleep
And after countless nights of terror
Crying insanity into the night and his parents
He will learn that he can wake up, and thus ends his existential horror
In the next months, he will find
That he can percieve things with his little body,
He turns himself into a small instrument, tasting, touching, and tearing at everything
Next he find he can clench his fists, but it will be several more years
Before he could willingly unclench them.
Until then, it is not a good idea to give them things to hold onto.
And so it goes on, each day, each night
At two years of age, he will learn to speak
That his can construct sounds, and imbue those sounds with meaning
But before that time he would have made far more interesting discoveries:
1) That it is useful to remember things that has happened before,
Because he can't remember things that hasn't happened yet.
But unfortunately, there are still many things he didn't bother to remember
From this humble beginning comes memory
And from memory learning.
No longer bound just to the instinct,
the newborn feels the past, and grope at a hidden future
2) That things he saw before,
But do not see currently
Did not dissappear neccessarily.
And here the child can learn two lessons (although ususally, one only learns one)
Firstly, things he does not see exists outside of him,
Secondly, that he has a past and a memory
That might or might not repeat, or remain valid
3) That he occupies space, and other things occupy space.
That his space and the space of another thing cannot be the same thing at the same time
That one thing, and another thing are seperated by distance, which is really space occupied by invisible air (although he couldn't know this at the time)
That he can change this distance, and modify things, by moving his own space, using biological functions he is not aware of
This astute observation might be the result of countless obtuse excursions;
Of many bumps, falls, pain, and crawling-into-walls collisions
But after, what a wonder he will feel!
Having command of space and distance, his terrible twos will now be more interesting
And so on, and so forth, and so goes the beginnings of a human being
In time, the terrible and new things a baby learns will become mundane and unnoticable
And no one will remember the wonder and complexity
That came with discovering these quantum leaps of intellectual capacity
Those simple milestones that gave us broad new ranges of abilities.
But maybe they are not all gone, and we can still find them,
What simple wonders and elementary mysteries,
Have lie undisturbed beneath the nose of intellect
That we have yet to discover?