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Noise comes in many forms, and a key component of intelligence is being able to filter distracting noise from the significant signal. Or conversely knowing what the signal should be with enough certainty that the noise level can be high and still an accurate assessment of the signal can be made. A mature form of this could be called wisdom, and it requires the experience to have developed into integrated habitual systems for coping consistently well with various kinds of noise typically encountered. Wisdom is a filtering method of coping in a more generalized way with more abstract input of data that has been organized into information. Wisdom is like an additional layer of brain cells processing the information, derived from data, derived from sensations, derived from stimulated cells. It is not impossible that some people actually have a mutation that creates additional layers of brain cells, that permit additional levels of processing of brain activity.

The world is filled with an infinity of potential energy inputs. They come in the form of light, sound, inertia, smell, taste, et cetera, with each of these inputs potentially coming from all directions all the time. These are from the material world, but they have their parallels in daily world behavioral activities of people. At the various stages of our lives, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, maturity, elder-hood we have different needs and thus the filters for our world relationship change with aging, and with intentional conscious development.

What was information at an early age gets incorporated into more generalized habitual responses at a later stage, and after that, at a later stage, it devolves into noise. Thus at maturity much of what was interesting and useful at an earlier time becomes only unwanted information, then unwanted data, and thus unwanted noise and unwanted input.

Then moving into a more elder-oriented life style becomes more meaningful than what is observed in the more youth-oriented chasing-tail-like behavior. For every person who evolves to these higher maturity states it will be different. It is different because everything that brought about this state has been different. The original DNA was different, the early basis of habit formation was different, and this moderates everything that comes later, and so every elder person has become totally unique, and they must define and seek their personal unique path. These elder paths are much more diverse than those of childhood, and if handled well are infinity more satisfying. Elder-hood is the greatest  opportunity of a lifetime for those who have developed the experiential and emotional underpinning to approach it with dedication and energy.

Elder-hood can easily contain the most wonderful moments of a person’s life.