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It's weird to call it an ability of babies to perform well in a very contrived task, but perform worse in any real life object recognition.

It is the other way round. We adults have a great capability to identify similar real life objects in various lighting conditions. Hints like the reflections on the snail tell our brain about the lighting conditions and we automatically correct for it.

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There's a bizarre but very fashionable form of self-loathing in which any way in which we differ from someone else, it is automatically assumed that the other thing is objectively superior. Do we, as adults, see one way but babies see another? Babies see objectively better! Does another culture eat differently than yours? Other culture is objectively better! Does the other culture have different music, art, story structure preferences? The article about how their way is objectively better than mine is already templated and ready to go in the minds of people held in thrall by this fashion.

I have to warn you that once you start seeing this, you'll see it in a surprisingly large number of places.

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