Comment on Most people's earliest memories are at around 3 or 4 years of age, which correlates with the age kids start asking "why" for everything. Kids start asking why when they become self-aware.

TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Leonixster@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Oh, I didn’t mean to intend that we don’t have memories from before that, since we very clearly do since we know who our parents/family are, the language we speak, etc. I meant that we can’t actively recollect those memories, given a few exceptions.

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