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Originally Posted by coberst
I think that, generally speaking, people over the age of forty tend to lose they sense of curiosity unless that sense of curiosity has been cultivated. Curiosity and caring are necessary conditions for an alert mind and these characteristics tend to atrophy with age if they are left unused. Such atrophy need not happen if a person maintains an active intellectual life as they age. A word to the young and wise don't let this happen to you. Get an intellectual life after your school days are over, don't put your intellect away in the attic with your year book.
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I wondered about that myself. Sometimes biologists and psychologists will say that X is caused by some physical occurence, when really the physical occurence is caused by X or something in your life that caused X as well.
I wonder if the physical decay would not occur as you seem to be implying if you frequently gained new long term memories even at older ages. Have you come across anything in your studies that indicates this?
I can see that most people who age probably tend to use this portion of their brain less and less as they develop a niche and concentrate their mental energy on it... And are less likely to make belief set altering new discoveries...
Probably for the same reason life seems less and less emotional as you get older...
