The Mind Body Dualis

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i had become extremely absorbed in the science of i had written a piece for ion magazine as well on interrception. The notion of he brain in the vat is completely absurd, that we are basically biologically biological through through ourselves,. aren't deeply embodied. Ad you cannot think of the er, the mind, without the body. So e, i wrote about this, idid a lot of research on this i become quite, you know, conversant on me at this point. I follow the signs very closely. Amd, friends with many of the scientists who are doingvery important work, which is, it's true, revolutionizing.

Shermer and Arikha discuss: what it means for a mind to be disrupted • dementia, senility, and Alzheimer’s disease • mental illness and the labeling problem • the social construction of mental illness • neurology and psychiatry • agency and volition • memory and amnesia • autobiographical memory • self and embodied self • brain modularity • brain as a machine • emotions and cognition: bodily changes first then the awareness of the emotion • conversion disorder/hysteria • depression • metacognition: thinking about thinking • exteroception and interoception.

Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas. The author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours, she is associate fellow of the Warburg Institute and honorary fellow of the Center for the Politics of Feelings, London, and research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. She is based in Florence, Italy.