I haven’t noticed any decline in cognitive ability with age, just the opposite:

I haven’t noticed any decline in cognitive ability with age, just the opposite: there is a sort of critical mass you can achieve where all new learning is easier.

I do notice two things: languages used to be easy, and I used to retain local maps more easily.

But it seems more that I have to focus on language and spatial memory.

So I am not sure it’s a loss of function rather than the relative dominance of internal thought relative to new external stimuli.

What would methuselah think like? Almost all experience would be noise.

For we infovores, so we grow irritable with age if we are no longer able to find new experiences via information?

I know that I am like a drug addict and become agitated if I cannot find new information to consume.

How does it transform our thinking now that information access cost is near zero?

Is scanning really inferior to reading? Is Nick Carr right or wrong?

Why is internal reasoning more effective than external searching if pattern recognition so readily defeats reason?