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by nomel 176 days ago
Kids definitely do this. They fill in blanks/context with assumptions, resulting in all sorts of silly responses, for topics of sparse knowledge/certainty. They're not lying, because they think it's true. Sometimes the gap filling is wrong, but usually downright brilliant, within the context of their knowledge.
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Are you sure there is an age limit for that kind of behavior in humans?
I replied within the context provided rather than all possible contexts. Would you also like to bring up the interpolation and extrapolation seen during problem solving in the cuddle fish, since it's related?
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