Toddlers do not actually start with a highly advanced "superchimpanzee" mind. Instead, adults project their own mature logic and thinking onto a child’s simple, playful actions.
> "The basic topic of my address today concerns how much of cognition is in the head of the infant and how much in the mind of the theoretician. My general stance is that we are being treated to an interpretive flavor of infant behavior that is much too rich."
> "The basic topic of my address today concerns how much of cognition is in the head of the infant and how much in the mind of the theoretician. My general stance is that we are being treated to an interpretive flavor of infant behavior that is much too rich."
—— Who put the cog in infant cognition? Is rich interpretation too costly? https://home.fau.edu/lewkowic/web/Haith_Critique%20of%20Cogn...