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Interesting - what’s the mechanism do you think? My experience would point to: once you “get” what’s good about a thing you can detect it when it’s in smaller quantities ...
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I'm thinking more of food/drink we consume for taste rather than stimulant/depressing effects I guess. So even though sensitivity to spice goes down with age, you want less of it too... milder. Though some people get on an increasing-chilli endorphin addiction kick.
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But I'm not that sensitive/sophisticated/cultivated in my approach to taste to talk of detecting it in smaller quantities... I think I just don't like intense experiences, and like them less with every passing year
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As I get older I am able to avoid almost all unpleasant experiences but I worry that I also lose some kind of edge of flexibility if I do
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I do that half-assed, sporadically as and when stiffness in joints acts up and I have access to decent classes mental flexibility, screw that. I've decided to become set in my ways and go gracelessly arthritic in my thinking
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