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RE: Why Can't We Remember Being Babies?
"So this would mean that our earliest memories don't get deleted - they are just stored in some part of the brain that we lose access to when we're about 8 or 9."
My understanding is that everything we experience from birth till death is stored in the unconscious part of the mind. I don't think this has been conclusively proven, but neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield did some famous experiments in this area.
He found that he could trigger the appearance of long-forgotten memories in his patients by stimulating certain regions of the brain.
Very interesting, thanks for linking me to Penfield!
And yes I agree that there is much more stored in our brains than we have access to. Who knows if Science will develop far enough one day to explore it all!