Alzheimer’s is a hardware problem, not a software one. You’re describing a software failure: failure to keep up with experience. If that is a thing, Alzheimer’s isn’t evidence for it.
Can we really separate them? I’m sure that the limitations of consciousness (software) have a physical base (hardware). I’m sure we could find the physical correlates of “failure to keep up with experience”, as well as we could find the physical correlates of why someone who doesn’t sleep for a few days starts failing to keep up with experience as well.
It all translates down to hardware at the end.
But anyway I’ll say again that I admitted it was speculative and not the best example.
Alzheimer’s is a hardware problem, not a software one. You’re describing a software failure: failure to keep up with experience. If that is a thing, Alzheimer’s isn’t evidence for it.
Can we really separate them? I’m sure that the limitations of consciousness (software) have a physical base (hardware). I’m sure we could find the physical correlates of “failure to keep up with experience”, as well as we could find the physical correlates of why someone who doesn’t sleep for a few days starts failing to keep up with experience as well.
It all translates down to hardware at the end.
But anyway I’ll say again that I admitted it was speculative and not the best example.