''OMG, I wrote this before your post having put everything I know about you in my Wayback Machine. I now think you are completely right, humans are nothing but feedback loops of data-in, data-out.''
It's not that I am right, but a question of how does it work?
What is a brain, if not an information processor?
What is the role of its senses, if not to acquire information for the brain to process?
Why does the brain acquire and process information from the environment, if not to respond to conditions and events in the world?
What happens if that information is lost? What happens if the brain loses the ability to retain and process information?
This is what happens;
Quote;
''People suffering from Alzheimer's disease are not only losing their memory, but they are also losing their personality. In order to understand the relationship between personality and memory, it is important to define personality and memory. Personality, as defined by some neurobiologists and psychologists, is a collection of behaviors, emotions, and thoughts that are not controlled by the I-function.
Memory, on the other hand, is controlled and regulated by the I-function of the neocortex. It is a collection of short stories that the I-function makes-up in order to account for the events and people. Memory is also defined as the ability to retain information, and it is influenced by three important stages.
The first stage is encoding and processing the information, the second stage is the storing of the memory, and the third stage is memory retrieval.
There are also the different types of memories like sensory, short-term, and long-term memory. The sensory memory relates to the initial moment when an event or an object is first detected.
Short-term memories are characterized by slow, transient alterations in communication between neurons and long-term memories (1). Long-term memories are marked by permanent changes to the neural structure''
The terminal Stages of the disease, and the consequences of such a profound memory loss being;
Symptoms:
''Can't recognize family or image of self in mirror.
Little capacity for self-care.
Can't communicate with words.
Can't control bowels, bladder.
