The question of why infantile amnesia occurs has intrigued psychologists for decades, especially in light of ample evidence that infants and young children can display impressive memory capabilities.

Besides being light, it does not suffer from any memory effect, which is the loss in capacity when a battery is recharged without being fully depleted.

Of this existence we know many things, but no new light falls upon any page of that; in memory is written all of it that we can read.