Ep 337: Luke Burgis Sees the Deer at His Window
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Importance of Memory
Sally Kohn: Memory is deeply connected to our sense of self. She says her dad had no memory of growing up, but he changed as a person when his memory started to go. He would remember what happened yesterday clearly and then forget it for weeks or months at a time. When she got home from D.C., they found him chain smoking mom's cigarettes that hadn't been smoked in 20 years.Kohn: What are we if not the sum total of who we are? We can become totally overwhelmed with these things that get amplified by memories.
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