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There is an supposition that the reason for "mental decline" in older age - or specifically older people being slower to answer things in general, as empirically measured - is not squarely due to physical decline, but is due to there being more data in the database so to speak, so giving succinct and fast answers becomes much more difficult as the neural circuitry takes a lot longer to stabilise on an answer against all the potential neurons that are participating in the process, and a lot more filtering energy must be expended.
I.e. it takes longer to query a full database, and answers are less accurate because there are more options that could match.
I wonder if a hyper-accelerated version of this happens with AI.
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