Ah, well, I tend towards an embodied cognition point of view.
I get there because humans are social creatures - so natural
we're doing it even now, across the wires of the Internet.
Our nervous systems extend towards and incorporate that which we
bring "in" and extend out "to".
I get there because babies not socialized through care *die*,
even though fed/watered/changed. [famous sad case of 1930s
German nursery if memory serves where the babies who were
mechanically cared for died, but those who were nurtured lived].
No socialization = death for humans.
I mention socialization as it covers a lot of sensory inputs all
at once. Look at how young children socialize with inanimate
objects, babbling to a ball and such. Doesn't matter if the ball
doesn't talk back. It doesn't have to for socialization to take
place.
