Alois Alzheimer

scientist · 2 mentions across 2 readings

In this course

Alzheimer appears here only as a passing reference in a fragmentary excerpt about neurons and synapses, suggesting a moment of self-alienation where neurological processes undermine the stability of identity. The second excerpt uses memory loss and orphanhood as metaphors for cognitive rupture, implying that degenerative brain conditions like Alzheimer's raise deeper questions about who "we" are when the biological substrate of self-knowledge collapses. In the seminar's frame, Alzheimer's disease functions less as a historical medical figure than as a conceptual anchor for thinking about how AI and automation might similarly estrange us from our own cognition.

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

from 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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James Parkinson 1 Alastair Grey 1 Kim 1