Baby Minds

[OpenMind5]

Hey Everyone,

Topic: The mind of Babies
Question: Have you every wondered why you can't remeber the day you were born?

Were you come in- Whats the story here?

*Trust me...i'm going somwhere with this one*

Review- in case u don't get what i want... why can't we remeber the day we were born or details of when we were 1 month old...ect...


OP5

[Tormod]

I'd say it's because our minds are not fully developed yet?

[infamous]

Some people claim to remember events in former lives, I quess that would qualify as before birth, wouldn't it. Personally I don't have much faith in such spectulation. However, I will admit that there are many possibilities even though they may sound completely unlikely.

[OpenMind5]

Originally Posted by infamous

Some people claim to remember events in former lives, I quess that would qualify as before birth, wouldn't it. Personally I don't have much faith in such spectulation. However, I will admit that there are many possibilities even though they may sound completely unlikely.

This is kind of what i was leading up to. The idea of the devloping mind, and the idea of past lives...i don't know how to bets decribe it...

Seems like i need to do some research here...
In develpoing of the mind...motor skills come first i'm assuming. LIke who many people remeber saying their first word? If is possible to go through part of your life not remebering what happened....why not past lives? (And i must say that i don't beilve in reincarnation ether) just the idea of being able to live somwhere else and have no idea about it...maybe that has somthing to do with the large mass of the brain we DON'T use...
LOL ~random thoughts~

TTYL
OP5

[jazzn85]

There was a fantastic program on the science channel that detailed the developing mind, including a specific mention of the child's understanding and perception of self and reality that he/she is a part of. I'd suggest looking into that, I'll try to find a corresponding website as well.

[Tormod]

Originally Posted by OpenMind5

maybe that has somthing to do with the large mass of the brain we DON'T use...

This is has been discussed before but I was unable to find the thread. That we do not use all of our brain is a myth.

http://www.csicop.org/si/9903/ten-percent-myth.html

That tired Ten-Percent claim pops up all the time. Last year, national magazine ads for U.S. Satellite Broadcasting showed a drawing of a brain. Under it was the caption, "You only use 11 percent of its potential." Well, they're a little closer than the ten-percent figure, but still off by about 89 percent. In July 1998, ABC television ran promotional spots for "The Secret Lives of Men," one of their offerings for the fall season's lineup. The spot featured a full-screen blurb that read, "Men only use ten percent of their brains."

[whoa182]

When you are born, you are born with 5 senses usually. you have Basic instructions from you're Genes. As you experience the world around you, you're brain is rapidly trying to make sense of the world and the surroundings it is in. You're brain is making so many Connections at this time in you're life that. the first few years are when you are not exactly conscious.

So rather the reason you dont remember things is because you havnt yet making sense of you're surroundings that well. Once you're brain has enough understanding and Intelligence you develop a greater consciousness. This continues and progresses to being Fully conscious bein eventually.

You're brain didnt really have any sense of the world for you to record any meaningful memories at the time.

A brain and 5 Senses = input = understanding/intelligence = consciousness

[OpenMind5]

But do u have to be in that state of conciusness to live?

[AsaTaiyo]

One of the theories in sociology involve the development of the human mind with respect to cognition and the way that we perceive the world.

Piaget established four stages of cognitive development

1. Sensory Motor Stage (Birth-2) - Development using only senses and muscle movement
2. Preoperational Stage (2-7) - Language development, You begin learning with symbols, and do not yet understand conservation of mass.
3. Concrete Operations (7-11) - Logical and now capable of concrete thinking, understand conservation.
4. Formal Operations (11-Adult) - Capable of abstract thinking.

Obviously this does not follow the the thinking development of all people, but for the lesser of our population I believe it makes perfect of sense.

[beccareb]

I don't know the real reason for why you can't remember the very beginnings of life, but I always assumed it was that simply the same reason you don't remember what you had for lunch 43 days ago. But since you were born that day, the long term memory won't funtion as well as it does now either. I think it was a memory for awhile, but that time was so long ago (percentage-wise) that you don't even remember that you remembered it.