if we developed a cure for Alzheimer’s disease that, as a side benefit, could dramatically improve the memories of healthy people? Would anyone be able to halt the relevant research? And when the cure is developed, could any law enforcement agency limit it to Alzheimer’s patients and prevent healthy people from using it to acquire super-memories?
but according to the book: why we sleep, didn't we learn that Alzheimer's disease is caused by a particular protein's excess of clotting in a particular brain area. If we were to find a cure then that would be to reduce or cut short that protein. How does that help in gaining super memory? it's not about capacity afterall.
