if I would seek an analogy to emoto's neglected rice, then I would envision it in the child, more precisely it's spirit or soul which has no choice but to neglect it's own embodied potential, it's brain, language, probably also it's emotionality (which i recon is linked to language), .. I could even speculate about a spirit that deliberately kills the brain, because it's sick of being trapped in numb repetitions, while there is no hope for developement/new horizons. like there is none for rice in a silly glass. (btw, i have no opinion on the validity of emoto's experiment). to consciously embrace a form like a brain may take energy, effort - while the powers of kosmic consciousness seem to entertain time and space with eternal inexhaustibility, there still seems to be a tendency to not 'waste' consciousness on specific creatures that make no use of it. but who and what determines this 'usefulness ' ...