You seem to have a really good intuitive grasp on it. Like I said, some of this is my own intuitive belief so use at your own risk. I've been toying around with simulating some of this and something interesting has emerged. It seems like the thought processes are competing for space. This is aligned with the idea of plasticity. I hope to build a model that shows this better than it is now, but I definitely feel like I'm on to a few things. We need to just use the law of parsimony to reduce some of the complexity and why wouldn't there be a competition on a cellular/organ system level? It's present on our level.

Also, isn't it pretty cool how our understanding of blockchain could help explain this network? There are some irreducible emergent properties of networks that I find fascinating.

With Alzheimers there does seem to be a misfolding of proteins. Maybe that's what diverts the signal and gets the connection "eaten."

Either way, cool stuff. I love talking about it.