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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Is It an Addiction?
consciousness is a process that is certainly extremely complex. We share it with the rest of animals and some levels. And there's an incremental level beyond which it's true. The philosopher suzan langer who was kind of forgotten, talked about symbolic symbol making all human life essential to consciousness. It comes back to our troglodytes saying we need to create meaning without birographical memories. I don't know if i can say more than anybody else on this issue. There are so much new things coming out every day - how do we make sense of them? What does 'cutes' mean in relation to us as humans? Are they just another word for cuddly
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