For now it seems we’ll just have to rely on authors and Hollywood to give us the visions of immortality we hope to achieve, but who knows how far behind science might be?

To the casual observer, trading fours looks a lot like musical instruments engaged in conversation – individual viewpoints and expression, in sync thanks to similar ideas, constructed with no forethought beyond a shared concept and maintained simply through the experience and knowledge of having a vocabulary and putting it to use on the fly to respond to new inputs.

The latest scientific thinking supports the notion that food promotes brain health and function. With a host of mental conditions affecting young and old alike (everything from autism to Alzheimer’s), it might be high time we took food more seriously.