Alois Alzheimer

scientist · 2 mentions across 2 readings

In this course

Alzheimer appears here as a passing reference within a broader meditation on memory, neural architecture, and the opacity of consciousness to itself. The excerpts gesture toward questions of identity and recall that haunt the course's engagement with how AI systems and human minds both fail to fully know their own operations. Alzheimer's disease functions as an implicit shadow text—a condition where the substrate of memory and selfhood deteriorates—though it is not directly theorized in these fragments.

Mentioned in 2 readings

Catherine Malabou

Introduction from What should we do with our brain

In this sense, we are still foreign to ourselves, at the threshold of this “new world,” which we fail to realize makes up our very intimacy itself. “We” have no idea who “we” are, no idea what is inside “us.” Of course, we have all heard pe…

qntm

There is no Antimemetics Division

"Do you remember your mother?" he hears Grey calling down the corridor. "I never knew my parents, I was an orphan," Kim hisses under his breath. For a split second he wonders what Grey might really mean by that, but he doesn't have time to…

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