Rethinking Alzheimer’s Disease Peculiarities: Brain InformationProcessing Point of View and Approach

Abstract

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a dangerous degenerative disease that affects the central nervous system of elderly people. In recent years, it has become a serious problem facing the modern society. Since the causes of the occurrence and spread of AD are still unknown, scientific research in these matters is of exceptional importance. Its main efforts are directed at the investigation of the mechanisms of the disease’s onset and progression. Among the mechanisms being researched are genetic, epigenetic, molecular, and environmental mechanisms. For unexplainable reasons, this list does not include and does not even mention information processing mechanisms. Why? Information processing is the bulk of brain activity. That is a generally accepted and indisputable frame of mind! The only possible explanation for such a slip can be only one: contemporary neuroscience (neurobiology) knows nothing about what information is and what information processing stands for! The purpose of this article is to correct somehow and perhaps improve this incredible situation.