Re:Critical step found in DNA repair, cellular aging (2017)
by erikpukinskis on Monday December 31, 2018 @12:00PM
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You’re assuming aging is bad for populations.
My assumption is historical learning is valuable up until some percentage of your memories are false and/or obsolete. Even in a perfectly healthy individual both happen continuously.
At some point an empty vessel has more utility than a trained up individual. So some heuristic that arbitrarily purges old people and their ideas is adaptive.
My assumption is historical learning is valuable up until some percentage of your memories are false and/or obsolete. Even in a perfectly healthy individual both happen continuously.
At some point an empty vessel has more utility than a trained up individual. So some heuristic that arbitrarily purges old people and their ideas is adaptive.