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There is evidence that all children love to interact with variables, such as materials and shapes, smells and other physical phenomena, such as electricity, magnetism, and gravity; media such as gases and fluids; sounds, music, and motion; chemical interactions, cooking and fire; and other people, and animals, plants, words, concepts and ideas. With all these things all children love to play, experiment, discover and invent and have fun.

Nicholson's evidence-based claim about children's inherent drive to interact with diverse variables.

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2024 07 12 Hibai Unzueta Simon Nicholsons Theory Of Loose Parts v2.0.pdf 7cc4f0

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All minds are composites of parts; individual and collective intelligence unified under substrate-neutral principles.
Children's intrinsic drive to explore variables
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Framework positing children are innately motivated to manipulate physical, social, and conceptual variables.

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In any environment, both the degree of inventiveness and creativity, and the possibility of discovery, are directly proportional to the number and kinds of variables in it
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The core assertion of the Theory of Loose Parts.

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Inventiveness, creativity, and discovery are directly proportional to the number and kinds of variables in an environment.
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The central axiom of Nicholson's theory, establishing the causal relationship between environmental complexity and human cognitive/creative capacity.

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