Excerpt from article: my italics: "We know babies in late-stage pregnancy react to light but a particularly striking study, led by neuroscientist Veronika Schöpf from the University of Graz in Austria, used fMRI to determine the direction of eye gaze in the womb and showed how this was associated with surprisingly well co-ordinated neural activity in the action, visual and control areas of the brain. Many of these abilities were thought only to be present in elementary forms at birth, waiting to be shaped by experience. But we are now learning that during the last months of pregnancy, experience of the world, through the womb, is shaping the brain more fully than we previously imagined."
Amazing :so right from our beginnings, before we emerge as separate individuals from our mothers, we are learning phenomenologically the shape of the world.
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