> because I completely lack sentience while asleep or before a certain age All you can say is you don’t remember. Children who are too young to form reliable l

> because I completely lack sentience while asleep or before a certain age All you can say is you don’t remember. Children who are too young to form reliable long term memories still form short term ones and are observably sentient from birth and by extrapolation before, albeit in a more limited fashion than adults. This is more than a quibble, because it’s been used to justify barbaric treatment of babies with the claimed justification that they either don’t sense pain or it doesn’t matter because they won’t remember.