There are a few grammatical and spelling errors you should correct. The essay itself is hard to follow, you use some big words, but in context, your points are rather simple. You should have made it clearer, given it a more defined thesis for the reader to follow. You should say "alzheimers is associated with ones lack of awareness".
Socrates never wanted to make it aware that people are all wise, but that everybody was an idiot. He was convinced that the world was intelligible and that man could ascertain truth, but that nobody had yet done this. If you ever read Plato's account of the trial of Socrates that will become apparent, because he is accused of not honoring the gods, and his rebuttle is that nobody knows what the gods want.
As for memory, it is clearly defined in psychology books. Some of the most famous psychologists in history tackled memory. Skinnerd, Freud, et cetera. They were behaviorists without any scientific proof until the turn of the century. The early psychologists discovered things like Primers theory. That long term memory is developed through conditioning. They established the three types of memories; sensory memory, working memory, and long term memory. In the late 20th century however we started using things like Xrays and cat scans to monitor someones mental state. Why? Because we know exactly how memory works, your brain through its nervous system creates an electrical impulse which registers one of the many memory compartments. Your conscious state will create an impulse, that will travel through the synapsis in your brain. Sort of like a key. Depending on the association and the importance of the event. This is your sub conscious memory that you are pulling from, which is where most of your long term memory is held. Sometimes these memories will never be used again.
I believe your theory on alzheimers is false. I have lived with a couple of people and have seen the natural evolution of the condition. They are completely aware, they just have problems associating. It will start off with them mispronouncing your name as somebody else when they know full well who you are, and correct themselves. "Timmy, I meant Paul, Bryan...ERRR" And then they will say your name. It is always someone you resemble. Its at the tip of their tongue they just can't spit it out. Eventually that will evolve into them saying your name wrong and not noticing it, but they still know you as who you are..and it happens in spurts. It happens most often when that person is stressed out. Eventually that will happen more and more frequently and get exponentially worse, and they worry about alot of things. Simple things too, the reason they are worrying is because they are afraid that the information is going to slip through their mind. Then thats when they start to completely drift. One minute you are talking to them about whats happening on television. They are enjoying themselves and having a good time, and then they will ask something that hasn't happened in decades, its quite weird. They have an altered state of reality, their long term memory starts interfering with their short term memory, to the point that they just don't know whats going on anymore. They get frustrated when you correct them, and eventually they just give up, and so do you. Straight to the nursing home they go.
This is all caused by the receptors in your memory glands and the impulses in your brain. They get weaker as you get older, and only the strongest short term memory cells hold together. Thats why it gets all jumbled up.
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