We're Inherently Social Beings Through and Through

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Our conscious selves really is not locked in the brain, as cartecat hadit, but really is about consciousness with others. So we are inherently social beings through and through. Even our consciousnesses may be a function of those processes at work. E temperae temper the sense of time itself, depends upon these physiological processes. I talk about that too. There is such a thing when somebody, as has i psychoti an s theyr divorce ther. Their temporalalityis divorce. And temporality of the rest of the world is like going back to this idea of the executive agenda. That's what we're doing all the time. Infants do it with their mothers when they're

Shermer and Arikha discuss: what it means for a mind to be disrupted • dementia, senility, and Alzheimer’s disease • mental illness and the labeling problem • the social construction of mental illness • neurology and psychiatry • agency and volition • memory and amnesia • autobiographical memory • self and embodied self • brain modularity • brain as a machine • emotions and cognition: bodily changes first then the awareness of the emotion • conversion disorder/hysteria • depression • metacognition: thinking about thinking • exteroception and interoception.

Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas. The author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours, she is associate fellow of the Warburg Institute and honorary fellow of the Center for the Politics of Feelings, London, and research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. She is based in Florence, Italy.