This chapter examines whether infants and young children possess the cognitive capacities necessary to construct biographical narrative, and therefore to satisfy even a demanding consequentialist account of personal value. Building on the previous chapter’s claim that narrative meaning-making is the most defensible criterion of personhood, the chapter surveys empirical evidence showing that infants already exhibit the foundational capacities for appreciating their existence: self-awareness, relational understanding, memory, pattern recognition and the impulse to create order from sensation. Far from William James’s ‘booming, buzzing confusion’, infants demonstrate differentiated awareness of self and other, and they engage actively with the social and physical world in ways that reveal nascent narrative construction. Infants not only possess the anatomical equipment necessary for cognition but also deploy it with remarkable competence: they track contingencies, detect regularities, anticipate outcomes and seek explanatory coherence. Their interactions with caregivers display early relationality—an awareness of others as sources of meaning rather than mere stimuli. These capacities collectively show that the biographical impulse does not await adulthood; it begins in infancy and is expressed through childness rather than adultness. Even on consequentialist terms, infants qualify as persons whose present experience is meaningful. A failure to recognise this reflects adult-normative distortion, not infant incapacity.