I had an interesting conversation today. A colleague and I were exploring the following hypothetical question: If you could live forever, due to some new scientific breakthrough, and you could choose whichever age you wanted to be forever, what age would you choose?
But here’s the kicker: You can choose a physical age and a mental age, and they can be different. So, hypothetically speaking, how far apart would be your physical age and your mentally age in your ideal scenario of a forever future?
How would a frozen mental age work? Would brain plasticity be gone? Can’t wrap my head around that … What’s a brain without change?
Interesting point. It’s not clear to me that brain plasticity and mental aging are the same thing.
Yes, not to me either. I guess the equivalent for the physical body might be that it’s a young body, but it can still be chubby or fit.
Still, it’s but clear to me what mental age really means.