Talk:RawringTwenties
20 months in
By personal improvement I mean specifically physical and mental condition, more specifically executive functioning. Most of the former is directed to addressing aging and both preventing network degeneration and increasing plasticity, regeneration the success of which will be evident in new personal bests in both functioning of CNS and the periphery. In executive function, I mean the elimination of the kind of negative and counterproductive activities one falls into in reaction to the ambient culture and countering that with the development of increasingly effective and regular replacement behaviors.
At around this time I came to understand that Jeanne Calment only holds the longevity record as a result of shortcomings in historical record keeping and in particular a class bias which is still in effect for supercentenarians of this time. People my current age will surely break that record and they will be in much better shape. I intend to be one of them if I can and know of no reason why not at this time. I'm heterozygous for APOEε4 but this raises the neurodegeneration risk only about 1 σ over background and I believe I am addressing it effectively. I don't have other risk factors and the other relevant genes such as TREM2 are either neutral or favorable so far as I've been able to assay to date. Also it's well established at this point that classical physical characteristics of neurodegeneration alone aren't sufficient for a failed network, people with them continue to function and people without don't showing the inadequacy of current understanding of the phenomena. This is typical of life in current human culture where it's necessary to sort thru conflicting and partial information and misinformation is rife.
As with many stupid beliefs and behaviors people accept that physical and mental degeneration are inevitable, and would say that improvement is inconceivable, but I don't believe this has been established in the manner of a biological correlate of the second law of thermodynamics that necessarily applies to intelligent organisms and I am well positioned by my prior life course to act accordingly on that belief.
With a prospect of decades of good health ahead, and having learned to live on basic income I believe it can only be straight up from here. Getting to a more comfortable income level is important but it's not the most important thing right now. Progress on the lower level projects has been slow and spotty to this point but I still fully expect to clear the backlog some years before the end of the decade. Also it's difficult to overvalue the worth of a completed conceptualization stage of things, which has been achieved.
