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'Most adults cannot remember anything of their lives before the age of three or four, a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. Scientists have suggested that this early forgetting is related to two aspects of cognitive development. First, cementing autobiographical memory requires language: it is harder to retain something when you lack the words to express it. Second, it requires a coherent sense of self, the ability to distinguish between “this happened” and “this happened to me”.'
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/11/the-big-idea-are-memories-fact-or-fiction
@cyrilpedia of this were true, about the necessity of language, then nonhuman animals would not possess memories. Which is false.
But I wonder if humans can sequence their memories in order, better than other animals, with the same cognitive abilities seen in toolmaking, song, and speech.