I think it is factually correct that we get Alzheimer’s and dementia at old age because the brain gets worn out. Whether it is because of failing to keep up with all the memory accumulation could be more speculative. So I admit that I shouldn’t have made that claim.
But the brain gets worn out from what? Doing its job. And what’s its job...?
Anyway, I think it would be more productive to at least present an explanation in a couple of lines rather than only saying that I’m wrong.
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.
This is factually false, as well as highly misleading.
I think it is factually correct that we get Alzheimer’s and dementia at old age because the brain gets worn out. Whether it is because of failing to keep up with all the memory accumulation could be more speculative. So I admit that I shouldn’t have made that claim.
But the brain gets worn out from what? Doing its job. And what’s its job...?
Anyway, I think it would be more productive to at least present an explanation in a couple of lines rather than only saying that I’m wrong.
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.