Object Permanence and the Impact of Early Learned Traits

I just got an unusual thought regarding instinct and learned functions in human babies, specifically regarding object permanence. What if this truth of human experience- that objects persist even when we do not sense them- which we take as obvious and fundamental, was more like a template applied to earth and our experience here? I pictured the baby being connected to everything prior to this, familiar with every element of their environment with hardly a thought. "Object permanence" feels like it might be entirely off the radar from this perspective, because here no thing would be created, destroyed, or lost track of. I could see how paring this omnilateral sense into more local senses, and specializing and amplifying each sense, would cause the sudden realization that an object can disappear from your senses novel, and the same would be true when an object reappeared in your sensory range. Without means to communicate the nature of this novelty, and with the baby trying to integrate into human culture, the fiction is relegated to instinct, and this unusual phenomenon of "learning" something so "basic" has gone under the radar (as amusing, or a curiosity) for thousands of years.