What is the function of childhood attachment? 1) Safety. 2) Child uses this relationship to learn goals from older people. "Even though there are many ways a child could learn about ordinary causes and effects, there is no way for a child to construct a coherent system of values -- except by basing it upon some already existing model." Given that goal-directed behavior is critical for Minsky (after all, this is what describes a control structure!), one gets the sense that attachment is viewed as a primitive process that provides a context in which goals themselves are learned.
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