EP.187 - ANIL SETH
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
A condition called capgra cindrone is where people come to believe that close family members are impostors. The person suffering cannot shake this conviction that something devious is happening. And there's a story about this, and i don't know how accurate this is. That there are two ways to explain a condition like that. There's a sort of freudian, psychoanalytic way; the other explanation is more grounded in the materiality of the brain. So if you see someone whom you're really close to, normally these two things happen in harmony. But if i saw my mother, or something like that, and there's no emotional connection,. then my brain might
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