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Very interesting and also terrifying - i'm trying to shift into the indie game space so hearing that my math may get worse than it already is terrifies me. I ha
by robotkilla 11y ago
Very interesting and also terrifying - i'm trying to shift into the indie game space so hearing that my math may get worse than it already is terrifies me. I have a really hard time believing that comprehension of math would decrease with age though. It seems to me that instead people typically stop using it after a certain age and thus their skills deteriorate.
- sabarjp 11y agoThe brain is fully developed by age 25 and starts to lose mass from then until death (see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19283594 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19283594). Brains of 90 year olds can be just 60% the size of a young adult. Neurons do not repair well and they (or rather, stem cells) aren't programmed to divide after the skull runs out of room. I would not worry, though. The brain is very flexible. If you keep your mathematics sharp, you will lose less useful things like old memories instead of skills. Many professionals work in difficult jobs (say surgery) well into their 70s by keeping their skills in use.
- robotkilla 11y agoi hate being a human.
- krapp 11y agoWell. Now i'm imagining my brain slowly dissolving like the head on an old beer. That's fun.
- robotkilla 11y agowait a minute... my math might be a bit rusty, but 28 samples is rather low isn't it? I'm a bit less worried now. edit: oops 28, 59 and 6 samples... maybe I really am becoming an idiot. still not much data though.
- CuriouslyC 11y agoExercise (among other things) has been linked to the growth of new neurons.
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