Transient Hypofrontality - September 7, 2015

My intuition that there are aspects of aging that heighten creativity may be correct. I just heard about transient hypofrontality, in which our frontal lobes simmer down from their constant focus on planning, organizing, and on and on. A slowing down results in meandering and unexpected connections rather than direct efficiency, and therein may lie novel surprise. And like the rest of our brain, transient hypofunctionality occurs more often as we age.

Does this mean anything? Probably not much but for those times when I enjoy having a sense of knowing something there can be a satisfying momentary smugness. For the most part attempts to explain mind through brain functioning are over simplified and possibly doomed from the get go.

So might as well just keep enjoying the fruits of whatever allows all of this to happen!