The beginnings of the    mental life date from   the beginnings of life - video Dailymotion

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00:00Our mental life begins at the beginning of our life.

00:03Our earliest memories are the first time we use language,

00:06the first time we have an idea,

00:07the first time we think about something that's not in front of us.

00:10These things are all related to the development of the prefrontal cortex,

00:14which is the part of the brain that makes us human.

00:16It's responsible for things like decision-making, planning, language, reasoning,

00:22and it starts to develop in the womb during the second trimester.

00:25As the prefrontal cortex develops,

00:27we start to have these little mental experiences that we can remember,

00:31and they're not just memories of things that happened to us.

00:33They're memories of things that we created in our mind,

00:36and this is the basis of our mental life.

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