Infants shift from third-person self-reference to first-person self-reference between ages 2.5 and 5 years old, not because the word 'I' is linguistically complex, but because they transition from non-ego consciousness to ego consciousness—from universal awareness to identification with the self-model.
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Unidentified Speaker — A radical theory of consciousness | AI researcher Joscha Ba… [pkhuDqK1_MU]Evidence Quote
“they talk about themselves in the first person before that they can already talk and they talk about themselves in a third person”
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