Being A Baby

Consciousness is the negation of general objects.

With mutual recognition comes self-consciousness.

So can you say that babies aren't actually conscious? After all, it could be said that they only become conscious after they touch someone else's hand. "Finding hands", as it's called, sort of marks the moment when a baby becomes conscious of himself or herself. Before that, however, they're in a state of pre-consciousness. After consciousness actually happens, the baby becomes aware that he or she is, indeed, a baby! At first, the baby doesn't even have a cause-and-effect relationship with objects.

Babies are just so interesting. There's a lot of unique characteristics that they have: for instance, one of the first things that they do is use their fingers to pinch. My mom actually told me that when I was younger, I'd be laying in my crib with my hands in the air, pinching something invisible (to her) with my fingers. But I had actually just learned to use my fingers, because for the first time, I used my fingers to pick up and eat Cheerios.