In both cases, the disease seemed to threaten "true " or self origin of the person . As memory has decreased, as the identity of the individual.
However, this perception is based on two premises : one on how to keep the identity of persons over time , and the other about how Alzheimer 's disease affects the human mind. Each of them has been the subject of empirical research , and the results may offer some rare positive news when it comes to the disease.First, how do we perceive the identity of a person over time ?
In philosophy , theories of personal identity often rely on memory as the basis of identity. According to one point of view sometimes attributed to Locke , for example, makes the same person today as in the past, is precisely the continuity in his memoirs - an aspect of spirit that wreaks havoc Alzheimer . It is surprising , then, that the new document Strohminger Nina and Shaun Nichols, published in the journal Cognition , suggests that memory can not be anything special when it comes to the way we think about other persistence over time.
In a series of intelligent Nichols and Strohminger studies presented people with a variety of different circumstances in which the individual characteristics of a modification ( for example, in response to a brain transplant , drugs or reincarnation ) , then the person was asked about the impact on the identity of the person. The most relevant to the case of Alzheimer's disease study was one in which the aging process is discussed. This is how they describe the study as a magazine article :
We asked participants to imagine that they met with an old friend he had met when they were 25 and they had not seen for 40 years . Subjects were presented with a list of the changes had been a friend and loaded to indicate the degree to which each change would have an impact on the identity of the friend. The answer to each question was given on a scale of 0 % ( "This change has no impact on his true identity " ) to 100 % ( "This change completely changes your true self "). They were asked to assume that for each character in the list, the friend was not when they were last seen .
Changes have been made to evaluate people involved a series of psychological characteristics. Some memory-related ( for example, dizziness , poor in remembering new information , forget the childhood memories or how cycling) , some personality (eg , adventurous , artistic ), the one for the wishes and preferences (eg, hate exercise , wants to talk radio) , some to cognition and perception (eg , worse attention span, moderate hearing loss ) , and some of the moral beliefs and moral (eg racist, selfish and generous).
The surprising result is that the memory is not before - . " True Self " runner when it came to support someone instead , the winner is morality. A person who has difficulty learning new information or forgotten memories , for example, childhood was considered less a fundamental change in the man who came to be cruel or selfish, or even one that has gained positive moral traits such as honesty or forgiveness .
However, this perception is based on two premises : one on how to keep the identity of persons over time , and the other about how Alzheimer 's disease affects the human mind. Each of them has been the subject of empirical research , and the results may offer some rare positive news when it comes to the disease.First, how do we perceive the identity of a person over time ?
In philosophy , theories of personal identity often rely on memory as the basis of identity. According to one point of view sometimes attributed to Locke , for example, makes the same person today as in the past, is precisely the continuity in his memoirs - an aspect of spirit that wreaks havoc Alzheimer . It is surprising , then, that the new document Strohminger Nina and Shaun Nichols, published in the journal Cognition , suggests that memory can not be anything special when it comes to the way we think about other persistence over time.
In a series of intelligent Nichols and Strohminger studies presented people with a variety of different circumstances in which the individual characteristics of a modification ( for example, in response to a brain transplant , drugs or reincarnation ) , then the person was asked about the impact on the identity of the person. The most relevant to the case of Alzheimer's disease study was one in which the aging process is discussed. This is how they describe the study as a magazine article :
We asked participants to imagine that they met with an old friend he had met when they were 25 and they had not seen for 40 years . Subjects were presented with a list of the changes had been a friend and loaded to indicate the degree to which each change would have an impact on the identity of the friend. The answer to each question was given on a scale of 0 % ( "This change has no impact on his true identity " ) to 100 % ( "This change completely changes your true self "). They were asked to assume that for each character in the list, the friend was not when they were last seen .
Changes have been made to evaluate people involved a series of psychological characteristics. Some memory-related ( for example, dizziness , poor in remembering new information , forget the childhood memories or how cycling) , some personality (eg , adventurous , artistic ), the one for the wishes and preferences (eg, hate exercise , wants to talk radio) , some to cognition and perception (eg , worse attention span, moderate hearing loss ) , and some of the moral beliefs and moral (eg racist, selfish and generous).
The surprising result is that the memory is not before - . " True Self " runner when it came to support someone instead , the winner is morality. A person who has difficulty learning new information or forgotten memories , for example, childhood was considered less a fundamental change in the man who came to be cruel or selfish, or even one that has gained positive moral traits such as honesty or forgiveness .
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