The Self Is a Sense to the Self

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The self is more than just the minimul or cor self, which is that column. It's basically our sense, our own sense of being alive. And see that i am the author of my actions, and also of er, of er body,. The body belongs to yourself as well. I don't think it's a thing. I think everything's a process. Even in the case of memory problems, there is a kind of physiolo basic, basical physiological coritself that does remain.

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.