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There is no reason to believe there's some special moment
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or special five minutes or special hour.
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It's just in the fullness of time
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babies will develop an attachment
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to the animal that's closest to it.
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They will recognize it as, at an implicit level,
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at an unconscious level, as their kin.
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Well, how does this work?
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How does the baby's brain develop--
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come to develop an emotional attachment to that creature?
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Well, you remember from Skinner
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that operant conditioning could provide a good answer to this.