Temporality and Aging

The lack of correlation between biological aging and experiential Temporality is compellingly, if not sufficiently, demonstrated by an ambiguity in the former notion. Aging consists in both maturity and decline, a distinction which is not evinced in cumulative Temporality. Furthermore, there seems to be no correlation between physical decline, which in a human typically begins circa the age of 35, and Memory, in which Temporality is usually constituted. In fact, the occasion of severe cerebral deterioration, i. e. dementia, is not experienced as any intensification of the experience of Temporality, but as quite the contrary--as the same retentive capacity as that of an infant. Accordingly, theories which, on the premise that the death of an organism is pre-encoded into its consciousness, conclude that the aging which leads to that death, even abstracting from the possibility of an accidental demise, are not grounded in experience. As is the case with the presumed fact of one's death, any internal phenomenological evidence that one is physically aging seems to be lacking.