Social isolation linked to an increased risk of dementia, new study finds

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/17/1149512488/social-isolation-dementia-risk-study

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A very rich illustration of the fact that early development appears to be preprogrammed, because the result in every baby is similar, but that in reality there is no common pathway. Understanding complex dynamical systems is essential.
"Although both children [studied by Thelen and Fisher 1983] reached successfully wthin a few weeks [from birth] of each other (thereby, from an observer's perspective, apparrently conforming to a Piaget-like unfolding of preestablished developmental stages), in fact each infant generated an individual solution to the task at hand. There was no preprogrammed, unfolding pattern common to both." Juarrero A (2002): Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System. Cambridge, Mass. London, England, A Bradford Book. p. 137/256, citing Thelen en Smith 1994.
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