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To: Shane M who wrote (354)	1/23/2014 10:20:41 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 935

Yeah, it is complicated separating nature from nurture. Here is what I am pretty sure of. Baring disease, those people who are active intellectually actually get smarter. They build systems for remembering, problem solving and logic they can draw from. Entire systems of logic on many issues. They say George Bernard Shaw was as sharp as a tack at 96. I am 72 and my memory is the best it has ever been, I think. I sell real estate and have to remember lots of stuff. My brain seems to have developed some sort of system for reminding me of appointments. I seldom write down any meetings, or tasks. I just always remember them. My brain seems to run over them until they are set? I could not do that 20 years ago. The brain also creates new neurons all the time, but if there is not adequate stimulation they do not set and disappear. I have thought about what reality is non stop for 50 years. Just my bag? So the old are divided between people who think a lot and those that don't. And the ones in decline are the none thinkers. Some people just don't understand thinking. I think :).