If you put a child in a small box and kept them in it, what would happen?
If you put a child in a small box and kept them in it, what would happen?
Would they simply never grow? How would that exactly go? How much force does a growing human body exert on the box?
This is assuming you take care of their food, water and stuff obviously.
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This is not hypothetical. Bits of human beings have been ritually imprisoned for ages and they basically deform to take the shape of the prison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(feral_child)
They become a documentary
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Jesus fucking Christ.
Upon determining that she had not yet learned language, linguists saw her as providing an opportunity to gain further insight into the processes controlling language acquisition skills and to test theories and hypotheses identifying critical periods during which humans learn to understand and use language.
Even given the low bar of common sense in academics someone should have realised this is not an appropriate experiment.
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Jigsaw, is that you?
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Are we also giving them human interaction like hugs and communication? Because lacking that, a baby will also die.
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Hmm, I don't think they would die without hugs or communication. Nothing in the link exactly says they would die too, aside from some questionable sources from hundreds of years ago.
A human body would be able to biologically survive without hugs and communication (or even higher brain function honestly if you manage it properly).
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