275. The Disrupted Mind: Noga Arikha on What Happens to Identity When the Brain Is Assaulted by Disease and Injury
The Michael Shermer Show
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Do You Have Sub Dimenta?
Elly: My mother had a sense for a while things were starting to slip away, and she was trying to kind of hang on to em. She would get really upset if we told her she was wrong, because she thought, well, do you think i'm crazy? That's what she was say. And maybe it's an illusion, like free will, an agency, but, you know, it's a powerful illusion. It works. I love William james' book 18 90 which is about the principles of psychology. There are all these various ways of defining the self, imean says.
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