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TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 1 week agoI’ve seen (and experienced in my fifties) that age does affect the working of your mind. I’d compare it to sleep deprivation. You know, when you’re young and reckless and haven’t slept well for a week, maybe pulling all-nighters for fun? It affects your concentration, your reflexes, and your general memory.
Age is like a mild sleep deprivation that gets a little bit worse each decade. It takes effort to stay lucid.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I agree with you, but I wonder how much of this is that most of us are worked to our last nerve until we’re at least 65, so many of us don’t have the luxury to maintain our brain plasticity? Once we’re 70ish, if we didn’t have that opportunity when we were living hand-to-mouth, and our brains are kind of set by that point.
We all have the potential, but not the opportunity until it’s kind of too late?
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 week ago
We may never know. Functionally, capitalism describes what is “normal”, even if outside of that it could have been different.