Evolution’s directive to the baby seems to be something like: > After you’re born, look for a certain pattern – something up high with a boundary that has four or so distinctive shapes on it. Your job is to learn to recognize such things as faces and distinguish them from other things. It’s bad if you reject an actual face, but it’s OK to identify a non-face as a face. You’ll spend your life seeing faces in things like clouds or rocks or slices of toast. No biggy. That is: not a threat to your survival and reproductive fitness. Have fun with it. Create art. > You also need to learn to distinguish faces, particularly the single most important face in the universe: mom. > Mom is important because your body will at times be out of whack. Later, you’ll learn to distinguish between being hungry and having a full diaper, but that can wait. Right now, just use your built-in ability to feel good or feel bad. Someday you’ll learn fancy words like “affect” and “positive valence”, but that’s not what matters to you now. What matters now is: if you feel bad, cry. It’s up to the faces to figure out how to make you feel good. > Best of luck, and sorry about the whole “skull almost too big to fit through the pelvis” thing.