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How were the individuals' baselines assessed? Some people have exceptionally good memories. It would not be suprising if these traits often persisted into old a
by morpheos137 5y ago
How were the individuals' baselines assessed? Some people have exceptionally good memories. It would not be suprising if these traits often persisted into old age in some of such individuals. For example a person with a savant pmemory at 25 might have the memory of an average 25 year when at 85. That would not suprise me. That said memory is not all that it is cracked up to be. When I was young I had an exceptional memory for facts. It hasn't helped me too much in adult life due to other psychosocial deficits and bad luck and evironment. There are different forms of memory. My emotional and autobiographic memory is sometimes so bad it is weird. Like many life events don't leave too strong an impression.
- barcoder 5y agoInteresting point that there are different forms of memory. A certain smell can take me back to a kindergarten memory. Music seems to be another form of memory that resists memory loss even amongst Alzheimer patients.* * https://www.dementiauk.org/music-therapy/ https://www.dementiauk.org/music-therapy/
- tgv 5y agoI don't think there can be a baseline. They would have had to scan a couple of hundred people 60 years ago to establish it. Plus, the results are on a very small group. It's difficult for me to imagine that fMRI can reliably show differences. And it's also noticeable that they couch the effect in very vague terms: "similar pattern", "more youthful". That's a lot of freedom to interpret a few so much data. That they've found a bio-marker sounds implausible to me: all they've found is a correlation with a memory task that can't be measured without applying that task.
- easygenes 5y agoYes, I know a person who is an adept computer scientist and well regarded author, yet they are quite frustrated that they have such a hard time remembering people by their voice and face that only people they are constantly close with are familiar.
- sharken 5y agoI also find that remembering peoples names take some time and effort. On the other hand i am quite good at relating bits of information, which is useful for problem solving, e.g. where was something similar seen before. This relation ability also works for words, such as your use of "adept". That relates to Battle Chess and then another old game called "Archon II: Adept", which is a bit like chess. Granted, it's not always useful things that come up this way. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_II:_Adept https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_II:_Adept
- nly 5y agoI can remember technical details from decades ago but often forget that I've met people socially just a couple of years ago. Me and my partner just had a discussion this morning where she claimed I had met one of her friends, and her friends long term partner, in a bar. We apparently spent he whole evening together chatting. I remember nothing of this evening (and I wasn't drinking).
- cleanpool 5y agoHey man, you didn't have a means of contact in your profile but I just wanted to say thank you. Mods or voters, please let this comment remain unflagged so morpheos137 can receive it. I have no other way to reach out to him. You commented to me recently re: self termination plans. You told me that I'd be cleaning the gene pool by self-terminating. Thanks for that. I've done a lot of reflection in the days since then. You're right. I have decided to proceed with self-termination and remove myself from the gene pool. Don't feel bad. It's just your view, one that I now fully agree with. Thank you again for helping me to make this decision. Take care, and I hope you procreate widely with your superior, healthy genes, ape.