You’re coming from a psychologic/spiritual point of view, which is valid. But I think you should perhaps consider a bit more the scientific perspective. Why do people get Alzheimer’s and dementia at old age? Because the brain fails to keep up with all the experience/memory accumulation. The brain gets worn out, basically. My concern is more scientific than anything. Even with the best psychotherapy or the best meditation or even the best brain tinkering possible, as time tends to infinite so do memories and so does “work” for the brain to do, and unfortunately the brain is finite, so it will invariably get overwhelmed eventually.
Like, I don’t doubt that in a few centuries or millenia we would have invented the technology to no longer get our brains worn out at age 100 but only at 1000 or 5000, but I don’t think we’ll ever invent the technology to avoid it past age 1 billion (just a gross estimate of course).
Personally, I’m only 30 and I don’t feel tired of living at all, fortunately. Like I said, I wanna live forever. But both my intuition and these scientific considerations tell me that it can’t remain like that indefinitely.
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.
You’re coming from a psychologic/spiritual point of view, which is valid. But I think you should perhaps consider a bit more the scientific perspective. Why do people get Alzheimer’s and dementia at old age? Because the brain fails to keep up with all the experience/memory accumulation. The brain gets worn out, basically. My concern is more scientific than anything. Even with the best psychotherapy or the best meditation or even the best brain tinkering possible, as time tends to infinite so do memories and so does “work” for the brain to do, and unfortunately the brain is finite, so it will invariably get overwhelmed eventually.
Like, I don’t doubt that in a few centuries or millenia we would have invented the technology to no longer get our brains worn out at age 100 but only at 1000 or 5000, but I don’t think we’ll ever invent the technology to avoid it past age 1 billion (just a gross estimate of course).
Personally, I’m only 30 and I don’t feel tired of living at all, fortunately. Like I said, I wanna live forever. But both my intuition and these scientific considerations tell me that it can’t remain like that indefinitely.
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.