_"Brains fully developed at 25" is an urban myth. It has been thoroughly debunked.
Slate did an excellent summary:
https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html
The Brains Blog || Announcement: AI and Agency Interview Series
https://philosophyofbrains.com/2024/06/07/announcement-ai-and-agency-interview-series.aspx
Spiking representation learning for associative memories
Naresh Ravichandran, Anders Lansner, Pawel Herman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03054 https://…
The brain is by far the least understood part of human anatomy.
Sentences like "We took pictures of brains and noticed some changes and that means that 22 year olds cannot consent to sex"
are very popular, but complete idiocy.
Giant Brains, Or Machines That Think
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-bfbeadc5-4234392c02c0851f
Giant Brains, Or Machines That Think Last week, I stumbled on a marvelous book: “Giant Brains; or, Machines That Think
Ugh. #1Password continues its slide into rotten behavior. I now have a _permanent_ "Add your first items" tooltip above my passwords. And they have told me they have no plans to let users manually disable these tips! Instead I have to add some dummy entries to this vault for the message to go away.
I think this explains what's been happening with 1P8 this whole time: a new phi…
The conclusions of researchers, like Finkelhor and Hines, are actually logical when you step back and think about it.
Why would nature prepare our bodies to have sex and make babies, but leave our brains too stupid to handle relationships???
https://youtu.be/La1GZ6bQHL0
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Powerfully Disempowering
We've just spent 20 or 30 years telling our sons and daughters that they are *prey*.
Prey is by definition weak.
Prey is a helpless victim.
We tell them that they will be *groomed*, because their tiny brains are too feeble.
It's the wrong message.
We are having a huge mental health crisis among young adults aged 14-18 precisely because they are constantly demeaned, degraded & infantilized. Their basic civil rights are denied. They are constantly told to be afraid because they're idiots who are easily brainwashed and abused. They're told their brains won't work right for years...
Its abusive AF and nobody will acknowledge how harmful it is.