Stile writes:
Are we all doomed to lose objectivity as we grow older and it's just a matter of time?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. "As we grow older" is a relative term, I think. I think we most likely
gain objectivity as we grow from adolescence to adulthood, which can be defined as "growing older". I certainly have gained it in the past few years.
I think what you're talking about, though, is growing older as in nearing the end of our lives, correct me if I'm wrong. I think that a lot of people would lose objectivity as they grew older, yes. This is also subjective, though. Scientists who were trained to consciously be objective their entire lives would probably lose it more slowly than people who weren't.
However, I think it would be hard to avoid it altogether. As people grow older, they become more set in their ways. The ideas that they have about the world become more settled in their minds, and they begin to see them as the only possibility, reducing their openness to ideas that oppose their own. Of course, like you, I have no hard evidence for this, and I don't know how one would test it. Upon speculation, though, it would seem to make sense.
Just a side note: Stile, I realize I may have been quoting you as "Stiles" for quite some time. If I have, sorry. >_>
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