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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Anasagnosia
There is a huge difference between the ordinary neurotic blind spot and pathological anna sagnosia. There was one point where it switches were. That's what happened with mamum. We're pretty fragile, and we were pretty resilient, but you're also pretty fragile with us both. It doesn't take much to wipe out her whole memory. Who determines that your extended mourning period is pathologica? A e u knois is mourning. How did that happen? We don't quite know. So these questions are quite complicated. And they may be sometimes political,. But there are definitly ways in which whe we also need a thing, also psychological and sociological answers
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