This is the conclusion I’ve recently drawn about my own social skills—I used to think I didn’t have the native architecture for some things, but more recently I’ve noticed that it’s pretty easy to internalize some social skills once I decide it’s interesting to learn. Related is the kitten vertical vision experiment, where cats that from birth saw only through vertical slits couldn’t track horizontal motion once the filters were taken off. (They recovered.)
This is the conclusion I’ve recently drawn about my own social skills—I used to think I didn’t have the native architecture for some things, but more recently I’ve noticed that it’s pretty easy to internalize some social skills once I decide it’s interesting to learn. Related is the kitten vertical vision experiment, where cats that from birth saw only through vertical slits couldn’t track horizontal motion once the filters were taken off. (They recovered.)