The brain can generally recreate the characterization of the self. As we get older, you see the progressive loss of that characterization in dementia. People become a different person as parts of their brain start to break down. So again, I keep coming back to this imperative that it must be an emergent property of the meat machine, which is the brain.
In this episode we discuss the self and interview Bruce Hood, author of "The Self Illusion." Also, at the end, we eat a chewy chocolate chip cookie and discuss therapeutic touch.
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