What happens to our memory as we age?(scopeblog.stanford.edu) |
What happens to our memory as we age?(scopeblog.stanford.edu) |
It seems overly simplistic to unilaterally claim that our brains decline past age 30.
Sure, under some metrics. Under others they improve [1].
There's a reason why we don't put 20 year olds in charge of our nuclear arsenal, for example - and it has nothing to do with the ability to remember a sequence of 7 numbers instead of 6.
[1]https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/why-you-should-...
Articles touches upon that:
> I don't think any of us would trade our lived experience for a faster-working brain.
If it’s important, someone will remind me.
Basically we're talking about traveling back in time but forgetting all your memories after that point. And without those memories you'd just end up at exactly the same spot where you now are, wouldn't you? Assuming the universe is deterministic. Which paradoxically means you actually cherish those lived experiences so much that you wanna relive them. ;)