ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how materials and preceding learning matter for human concept formation and how human ignorance and curiosity are relative to material learning experiences. The many drawings with human-like robots with square heads were triggered by the material word sound “robot”, whether the children had visited the exhibition or not before the drawing sessions. The theory of cultural models emphasised that organised meaning indicates that cultural expectations are formed cognitively in human collectives. A new subdiscipline has emerged in anthropology which is the anthropology of ignorance. Learning is a process that constantly transforms us and our surroundings as an ongoing, collective, cultural learning process. Lev Vygotsky meant this to be a humanist argument of how small children learned to become rational and free adult thinkers that differ from non-thinking, primitive animals. Like “robot”, the concept of “posthumanism” is basically a line of thinking very much embedded in a Western discourse.
