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It's not for us to decide. If he feels younger then he should have the right to identify as younger. Scientifically there are certain biochemical changes that h
by geowwy 8y ago
It's not for us to decide. If he feels younger then he should have the right to identify as younger. Scientifically there are certain biochemical changes that happen in the brain as we age and there is strong scientific evidence that some people maintain young brain chemistry even into old age. Just because he was born 70 years ago doesn't mean he's a 70 year old.
- jonhohle 8y agoIt does, in fact mean that unless you reject the legal and cultural definition and measure of time. If that’s the case, the I suppose I’m 6’5” with 24” biceps. I can’t help that I wasn’t able to grow that tall or gain that much volume.
- geowwy 8y agoProgess means updating legal and cultural definitions. What do you think happened with gender and marriage?
- SllX 8y agoExcellent point. I too fetishize “progress”, which is why at my most recent birthday I progressed from 25 to 900. That isn’t to say I was born in or even alive in the year 1118 AD. But I’m 900 just the same because I feel like it.
- hndamien 8y agoTime is relative though. (admittedly for these purposes it makes little difference, but I presume the question of age should be assumed to be from your reference frame, how many revolutions of the sun (Sol) around Earth have you been alive for.
- Digory 8y agoOf course, it's from society's reference, not your own, that you know when you were born, and how many revolutions have happened since then. And observing revolutions feels like an abstraction to most people, kind of like "seeing" chromosomes. Most people see effects of revolutions (seasons).
- jonhohle 8y agoSure, time is relative. It’s also how we calculate standard measures (the distance light travels over some interval). So if time is relative, so is length.
- hndamien 8y agoCorrect. That gives me another idea of something I would like changed... for my dating prospects...