Is It an Addiction?

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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

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.