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If people were ever babies at one point, then how come we can't remember being babies, amirite?

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Have you ever heard of the Matrix?

@Vindicare-jjl Have you ever heard of the Matrix?

Exactly dude, what if they're wiping our memories so we don't remember what life was before birth

Boknows12s avatar Boknows12 Yeah You Are +4Reply

It's because we associate events with words and speech. We are unable to speak and can't attach memory to words or words to events. We really only start to grasp long term memory after we start thinking in full sentences.

I recall toddler age interactions but definitely not baby age. Super interesting!

The memories are wiped out by drinking milks

Openeyess avatar Openeyes Yeah You Are +5Reply
@Openeyes The memories are wiped out by drinking milks

The reason we don't remember coming down from heaven and being birthed in a spray of blood.

Boknows12s avatar Boknows12 Yeah You Are +7Reply

I think that since our brains aren't as developed, we don't have as much ability to store memory, so therefore we only have bits and pieces at this point

jodzdzownicas avatar jodzdzownica Yeah You Are +4Reply
@jodzdzownica I think that since our brains aren't as developed, we don't have as much ability to store memory, so therefore we...

I've only ever seen pictures of "myself" as a baby, there's no way to confirm if the person in the pictures is me besides second hand accounts. This is ridiculous, I don't think I was ever a baby

Boknows12s avatar Boknows12 Yeah You Are +1Reply

There are rare cases of exceptional memory and hyperthymesia like Solomon Shereshevskii but more often we don't realize just how much we forget, either by the mind not copying it to long term storage or the gradual failing process of re-remembering and encoding the memories back into our brains. On a side note there is a beautiful fairy tale of babies being told the mysteries of the universe before they are born and then the knowledge being wiped from their minds just before birth so they can be excited to relearn it all.

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