Smarter = more mentally fragile?

[Anonymous No.8172284]

Do smarter people burn out quicker?

Are they more likely to mentally deteriorate and go senile, due to the enhanced brain function when in health?

I'm basically relating it to cars. A car with more miles on the clock would mean it wears away quicker.

[Anonymous No.8172299]

>>172284
I'm sure most intelligent people just think differently as opposed to thinking faster

[Anonymous No.8172309]

>>8172284
I cant agree. I think that smarter people just get bored faster as they need more stimuli than others. Brain doesnt wear off - just look at some miner whos 80 y.o. and a professor at the same age - which one, do you think, would be able to have a fully coherent conversation?

[Anonymous No.8172346]

>>8172284
>I'm Basically relating it to cars
My grandfather, 76, still works on engineering projects across the country and is still registering patents.

Way I see it, you don't use it you loose it.

[Anonymous No.8172363]

>>8172284
Short answer: no
Long answer: No one knows for sure yet

[Anonymous No.8173874]

>>8172284
i think that it is the other way, smart people use the brain more while it is still developing, and this leads to a "better" brain in old age

[Anonymous No.8173886]

>>8172284

I think it's a romanticised myth that a significant proportion of intelligent motherfuckers are mental.

However, I am mental and I think that my ‘intelligence’ has been crafted by the repetitive firing of neural networks in my prefrontal cortex, resultant of living with anxiety disorder since I was nine years old.

Essentially, every time I had an episode of severe anxiety my brain’s elaborate simulation software would kick to action and my prefrontal cortex would receive a hefty stream of dopamine (and subsequently glutamate), which facilitated abstract conceptualisation and critical thought in relation to what could possibly be causing such an adverse reaction (the spike in epinephrine and norepinephrine resulting from mechanisms in the brain stem being triggered).

All that practice, over all those years, surely must have contributed to my analytical and slightly autistic thought processes.

[Anonymous No.8173900]

>>8172309
Knowing some 80 y.o. profs, probably the miner.

[Anonymous No.8173906]

>>8173900