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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Is There a Subject?
The subject, in the sense is what we arei cannot be abstracted. Must be fully there. So abstractly myself really ha been wrong. That's number one. And also number two, i realized that so many people develop amensa,. It was almost way of seeing how my experience could be of some sort of helpor, i don't know what, to others. And also how i could honour my own mother by doing so. Because my mother had, was a poet, been a poet, a writer, an intellectual or her life. She lost her episodic memory, meaning her long term memories, but ure, verbal sagacity was extraordinary and she said amazing
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