<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">I know at least two people that old whose minds are as sharp as ever. Granted, they stay very active intellectually, which is probably the reason why. adrian</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:29 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I am 74 and I don't think anyone my age or older could say that their mind was completely unaffected.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">We're good at faking it, too - and hiding it. No way anyone over 35 is as good as they used to be. Brain cell loss. Of course we make up for declining function by getting more efficient, detecting logical and cognitive errors and so forth. I am surprised that theoretical mathematicians aren't fired after about 30, as their days are over.</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"> ( a lot of flak here, I expect)</div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">It's likely that the people you know are pretty darn smart, and the smarter you are the farther you have to fall before it's detectable. Ask those two if they think that they haven't lost anything.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><div></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"></div><br></div></div></div></div>
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