It's an interesting question and observation. Conversely, does being tall, muscular, deep-voiced etc make you look/seem older? Or...babies are balding, flabby, toothless - so does having these characteristics make you look younger still?
Defining aging can be difficult and in some respects(or all?) it is an attempt to squeeze unimaginably complex empirical reality into a relatively very limited conceptual model. Often that conceptual model is fuzzy and unexamined for flaws and limitations.
"Aging" at the abstracted level of aesthetics does not appear to be a monolithic linear quality to me, even if you do manage to derive a decent definition of it based on the subjective perceptions that make it.
The beauty of the SENS approach to aging, and also more importantly, its potential power and utility, is that it promises to reduce the complexity of aging into a relatively small number(just seven) of universal mechanisms, thereby allowing aging to be completely reverse by a similarly small number of targeted therapies/fixes.
http://www.sens.org/...o-sens-research
Edited by Brett Black, 29 August 2014 - 06:48 AM.