What should I ask Alison Gopnik?

Yes, I will be doing a Conversation with her.  Here is Wikipedia:

Alison Gopnik (born June 16, 1955) is an American professor of psychology and affiliate professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work in the areas of cognitive and language development, specializing in the effect of language on thought, the development of a theory of mind, and causal learning. Her writing on psychology and cognitive science has appeared in ScienceScientific American, The Times Literary SupplementThe New York Review of BooksThe New York TimesNew ScientistSlate and others. Her body of work also includes four books and over 100 journal articles…

Gopnik has carried out extensive work in applying Bayesian networks to human learning and has published and presented numerous papers on the topic…Gopnik was one of the first psychologists to note that the mathematical models also resemble how children learn.

Gopnik is known for advocating the “theory theory” which postulates that the same mechanisms used by scientists to develop scientific theories are used by children to develop causal models of their environment.

Here is her home page.  So what should I ask her?

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