[Dragaera] Thoughts on age and experience on Dragaera

[Howard Brazee]

On 2/8/2010 10:56 AM, Jon%20Lincicum wrote:
> I've seen recent studies about human adolescent brains that seem to indicate that human teenagers actually have problems learning and making decisions because their brains are "overwired". They have "extra" pathways between their thinking centers that cause confusion and cause them to make poor decisions. As they mature, these "extra" connections go away, and they are better able to process the information that their senses relay to them, and more efficient about integrating new experiences.
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Having well developed channels makes doing old stuff easier, and 
learning new stuff harder.

> It would seem to me that this could be a plausible explanation for why a Dragaeran of say, 60-190 years would have a slower developmental rate mentally than an Easterner. It takes far longer for their brains to become efficient analytical machines.
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Do they get slower as they age?