system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: If humans have infantile amnesia, how does anything that happens when we are young affect our development?
gpt
Lack of autobiographical memory is not at all the same as lack of learning.  You probably don't at all recall learning to speak, but the effects of early exposure to your native language are still burned into your brain and reinforced by a lifetime of daily use.