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You're wrong on every one of those claims. Would you like links?

Yes please. Send me links that prove that newborns speak and can relate their past, make plans about the future, walk and manipulate objects to achieve goals, and see beyond a few cm. I'll wait.

Not being able to speak doesn't = not having language.

https://theconversation.com/babies-can-learn-language-sounds...

https://www.monoglotanxiety.com/blog/sciene-of-language-newb...

https://www.aaas.org/news/babies-brains-are-primed-their-nat...

I could go on for each of your claims but this should suffice to make a curious person want to revisit their assumptions. Each one touches not only on speech but memory.

You moved the goalpost in your second comment, so I am not going to consider you worth engaging beyond that - you're clearly a bad faith arguer.

The articles you linked say that newborns hear and learn speech sounds, not that they have a language. Their brains are primed to absorb it and they will eventually develop it, they're not born with it.

By most cognitive measures, an adult mouse is probably more conscious than a newborn.

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