Does deep thought and duration of it lead to objective truth?
Or to reformat the question, is a person often closer to objective truth by age 70 than age 20?
Note I didn't define "how close" they are, I said "closer".
Objective truth requires we go back and question all that we have learned, in all areas of life, to make sure we are not carrying subjective baggage; premises, which can cause one not to be able to be find objective truth.
Advancing age sort of does this, since it brings one in contact with hard reality, where our systematic biases are testing, again and again. This testing allows one to come to terms with our foundational biases, that can result in the wrong perceptions, needed for objectivity; wisdom of age.
This state of wisdom can also be speeded up by the youth. An analogy is going to therapy to overcome a neurosis. The neurosis will create a certain bias in terms of coloring our perception of reality. This bias may be prejudice or anxiety, to name a few. This coloring can become an accepted premise, since it appears each day. The person may then use sound reasoning, beginning with these false but reoccurring premises, thereby leading them away from objectivity; neurosis.
Part of the therapy is to go back in time and see where this all began. Then you change or preprogram the past, so the premise or lens of objective perception, is clarified. Age and experience allows more opportunity to test foundation premises; subjective bias, so one can reach a place of objective health. Age does not guarantee anything, but it does improve the odds, based on more testing data.
Our foundation premises are like the foundation for a house of knowledge. If the foundation is weak, you can only build the house vertically, to a certain point, before it becomes unstable. Poor subjective foundations, such as bias, does not allow us to build very high. We need to stop as a certain point, which may not reach the upper floors of objectivity.
On the other hand, if we redo the foundation and reinforce it with objectivity; rebar,, now we can add even more stories. This is the correct foundation needed to perceive objectivity; build upward.
A good place to begin is to question your political bias. Often times, this bias began when we are very young, before we are innately objective. It may not be due to direct education, but it can appear from listening to people we trust; parents, teachers, celebrities. A more advanced place is to question the premises of science or religion, especially those which pits each against the other. Each is a separate complex specialty. A weak foundation premise can appear if we accept laymen defining things for the specialists. From there yu can never build upwards, to the blue sky in either area.
