The whole world changes all the time and yet such is the way the mind works, that once it has learned something that helps it survive, it doesn’t take to change very easily. The number of times we have to repeat something to learn it increases as we age, almost as if nature doesn’t want old animals. But the older the animal the better its matrix of abilities for survival so actually, age is vitally important because age can teach or breed on survival successes.
But maybe there is a cut off point where nature dictates that animals that have survived but are too old to do anything but look after themselves, and wont have any more children, have served their purpose. Nature, after all, simply wants more of an animal and nothing more, or so it seems. We don’t actually have anything more to go on than observation on the planet Earth so we may have a one-sided view point.
Change is so fundamental to everything we are and do it seems strange that age should deconstruct the brain and make us more vulnerable, almost as if nature is training us to be less selfish and more thoughtful because only by looking after the old can we make sure they survive.
But how could nature see that as a survival mechanism for a species?
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