discussion The age old question?

[User_98630]

You've got to differentiate between physical and mental age. Physical age? Sure, their cells kept dividing, they are now 10 years older. Mental age? They certainly do not have 10 years of additional learning, wisdom and experience.

Time in hibernation is not equal to age in any practical sense. Chronologically they're "older", but shouldn't be thought of as such socially or legally

 

[zark]

just do it like Rimworld - separate into biological age and chronolog

Ok so if there a law (lets say the drinking age) do you set it with the one of them, or both?

 

[AsuraEU]

You've got to differentiate between physical and mental age. Physical age? Sure, their cells kept dividing, they are now 10 years older. Mental age? They certainly do not have 10 years of additional learning, wisdom and experience.

Well no that's the thing. Their cells don't keep dividing. And the way you separated it into physical and mental is wrong. They're still the same age both "physically" and "mentally", only their nominal age actually increased (or chronological age as mentioned previously).

 

[AsuraEU]

Ok so if there a law (lets say the drinking age) do you set it with the one of them, or both?

The drinking age is still the physical age, because that's the one that's used for such matters. Their legal age is the one used for everything else.

 

[screamsvictoria]

age is measured in time (years). and years are measured in revolutions around the sun. your experience during those revolutions around the sun are irrelevant.
so yes they aged in stasis.

Ok so if there a law (lets say the drinking age) do you set it with the one of them, or both?

Law ( based on age) absolutely fine

 

[User_98630]

Well no that's the thing. Their cells don't keep dividing. And the way you separated it into physical and mental is wrong. They're still the same age both "physically" and "mentally", only their nominal age actually increased (or chronological age as mentioned previously).

Ah my bad, I thought "coma" and didn't read "hibernation". You're right, no increase in physical or mental age, only chronological age increases

 

[Danv]

Ok so if there a law (lets say the drinking age) do you set it with the one of them, or both?

pretty much all laws, especially those involving biological functions, would be covered by biological age
chronological age is just technicality

 

[zark]

The drinking age is still the physical age, because that's the one that's used for such matters. Their legal age is the one used for everything else.

chronolog=legal right?

 

[AsuraEU]

chronolog=legal right?

Like I said, nominal so yeah pretty much.

 

[ErzuzB]

chronolog=legal right?

Sure, put a 6 year old into stasis and wake it up after 20 years, suddenly legal right?
It's the biological age what matters.

 

[porno.smotrin]

if 8-year girls will be put in some sort of stasis or what ever technology that will prevent biological body systems decay, when wake up that girl after like... 10 years, will be she account adult? by the law... Yes! Even is sound awful, danm reality sucks...
if somebody put themself in stasis or whatever and stay like that in 50 or more years, then it will biologically like it was on moment he was before stasis, but absolute time will be different and that mean... duh... whatever mean he will be young but spend its time 50 years and nobody now dont know him, he must start all from beginning, new friends, learn new technology, other people psychology, new work, is it worth?

 

[AsuraEU]

if 8-year girls will be put in some sort of stasis or what ever technology that will prevent biological body systems decay, when wake up that girl after like... 10 years, will be she account adult? by the law... Yes! Even is sound awful, danm reality sucks...
if somebody put themself in stasis or whatever and stay like that in 50 or more years, then it will biologically like it was on moment he was before stasis, but absolute time will be different and that mean... duh... whatever mean he will be young but spend its time 50 years and nobody now dont know him, he must start all from beginning, new friends, learn new technology, other people psychology, new work, is it worth?

Fucking that 18 year old little girl would still be ****philia. Biological age is the one taken into account in such cases.

 

[MasterBlaster1922]

just do it like Rimworld - separate into biological age and chronological age

Correct. The difference it's between biological and chronological (administrative) status. If you are 10 years old and, for any reason, your body (brain included) stop to grow old and after 8 years your body awaken, biologically you are 10, chronological you are 18, but for the State you are 10. Different if the brain it's active. In this case you are 18 for bot and also for the State. Basically, in a civic sense, biological age matters. Of course this is matter of an interesting political discussion, which can generate great story ideas for loli games!

 

[zark]

And you can have someone that biological 18 and chronological 10. The mind stop but not the body. your not going to let some one drive a car that like that (if you know)

 

[ErzuzB]

And you can have someone that biological 18 and chronological 10. The mind stop but not the body. your not going to let some one drive a car that like that (if you know)

Chronological is the wrong term for that, Chronological age is pretty much when you are born on a calendar.
Mental age would be more fitting.

 

[zark]

Chronological is the wrong term for that, Chronological age is pretty much when you are born on a calendar.
Mental age would be more fitting.

yes your right, but I was responding to this system. (Rimworld - separate into biological age and chronological age)

 

[Tunari1976]

When a person is deep-frozen, his body and metabolic processes slow down significantly. This slowing down can delay the aging process, but it does not stop it completely. Since the body works very slowly in deep ice, the aging process slows down, but it does not stop completely. This is why a person ages more slowly while in deep ice, but they don't age completely in place.

However, it is important to note that deep-freezing methods and their effects on human physiology and aging are still partially unknown. At the moment, the scientific community has not yet developed a deep-freezing method that would enable safe and functional deep-freezing and subsequent awakening of a person.

 

[ChrisDank3rd]

Nani the fuck !?

 

[3dloli]

shes 200 years old officer!

 

[Unknownadd]

There's physical age and mental age.
Physical age would pin to when it is physical safe to do the act.
Mental age would pin to when the person is mentally mature enough to consent to the act.

Yeah, Rimworld has a cryo age and a physical age which covers that, but even if the body is aging, it feels off if the mind is still young (like the coma example).

This used to be a pretty popular topic for POV with space epics. Both because of the cryogenic sleep aspect as well as the whole 'time is relative' aspect. I think it was theorized that an astronaut who spent 5 years piloting a space craft to the edge of the solar system and back would return 70 years after they left because of how time skews with gravity.