The Cradle of Knowledge: African Journal of Educational and Social Science Research

Learning: A Rudimentary Historical and Philosophical Exploration

Arun Datta

Abstract


This is a philosophical paper that explores learning. Learning involves ‘learner’ and ‘what to learn about’. For this paper, latter is the world around of which the former is a part. The ‘world around’, started with the Big Bang. That entailed the physical world and the laws that it obeys. Life came into existence because the physical world and the laws made it possible. We humans are the most evolved form of that life because we have evolved learning capabilities.

Key words: Big Bang, cognition, evolution, neurons, synapse

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