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ELI5: Why can't we remember anything before about age 5 or so?
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IIRC there’s a massive restructuring of your brain’s neural connections that happens around that age, and after that most of your brain’s growth is more linear and incremental. And that’s why there’s that “memory wall” where you can have several memories going back to that age, but very few that go back further.