Child-Development

Bruner’s enactive stage and Montessori’s materials both understand that abstract concepts must be grounded in physical experience before symbols can carry weight. The touchscreen skips that stage entirely — and the learning data are beginning to show it.

The same structural reason a toddler cannot put shoes on before socks is why position and momentum cannot be simultaneously measured. Non-commutativity is not exotic physics — it is the default logic of any ordered world.