Wine Impressions - level of discernment

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Peter Creasey

Peter Creasey
Some people seem to be less discerning as they age and gain wine experience.

On the other hand, judging by the wine tasting notes from past years by people versus their current notes, a significant percentage of wine enthusiasts seem to become more discerning over time.

This makes one wonder what might be the more typical progression of how people judge wine with advancing age and experience.

Just musing...

. . . . . Pete
 
My first take is that, like any sport, your skill improves with practice but your body eventually starts failing, misfiring, and generally not performing up to previous standards.

Which comes first... the ability to pick out a whiff of camphor among the eucalyptus, or your body no longer replenishing that receptor in your nose?
 
The physical equipment starts deteriorating as early as childhood so you rely on the mental game getting stronger until the mental equipment starts deteriorating too and then it's just a rush to get your brain frozen and digitized before the reaper comes.
 
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
The physical equipment starts deteriorating as early as childhood so you rely on the mental game getting stronger until the mental equipment starts deteriorating too and then it's just a rush to get your brain frozen and digitized before the reaper comes.
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Why would you need to both freeze and digitize your brain? I presume you would want to freeze it so that it (you) may come back online (so to speak) once the technology exists capable of creating the physical environment needed to support mental function. Wouldn't digitizing your memories be redundant?

Of course this assumes that your self exists solely in the brain.
 
You need to freeze it before you digitize it because we invented the freezer before we invented the brain-scanner. Also, we don't really know how long you have after the pull of the plug before those memories disappear forever from the flash RAM, so you really want to get the chemical reactions as slooooooow as you can possibly get them in between those last moments and the next ones. It sure would suck to go through all the trouble of re-animating yourself and then find out the disk is corrupted.
 
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