{"id":28505,"date":"2026-06-17T21:27:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28505"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:27:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T02:27:38","slug":"a-hypothetical-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28505","title":{"rendered":"A hypothetical question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s the kicker: You can choose a physical age and a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28505\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A hypothetical question&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28506,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28505\/revisions\/28506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}