275. The Disrupted Mind: Noga Arikha on What Happens to Identity When the Brain Is Assaulted by Disease and Injury
The Michael Shermer Show
Michael Shermer
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Michael Sherman Show |
| 0:16.6 | Nogarika nice to see you. Congratulations on the book The Sealing Outside the science and experience of the |
| 0:21.6 | disrupted mind. |
| 0:23.0 | Let me give you a proper introduction. |
| 0:24.4 | Noga is a philosopher and historian of ideas. |
| 0:27.4 | Her previous book is, |
| 0:28.9 | Passions and Tempers, a history of the humors. |
| 0:32.3 | She's associate fellow at the Warburg Institute, an honorary fellow of the Center for |
| 0:37.0 | the Politics of Feelings in London and a research associate at the Institute Jean Nico, if I pronounce that right in Paris. |
| 0:44.4 | She's based in Florence, Italy where she is now. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:47.8 | Hi, nice to see you. |
| 0:48.8 | Thank you so much, Michael. It's great to be here in the show. |
| 0:51.8 | What's this, we'll get into your book big time but what's the |
| 0:55.5 | previous book about I haven't read that passions and tempers a history of the humors |
| 0:59.6 | yeah well that's a book from which it's, Othenet was published 2007. |
| 1:04.2 | It's a, basically, it's a history of the whole, |
| 1:06.8 | the humoral theory that prevailed for 2,500 years |
| 1:09.9 | in the West from the Greeks to basically today |
| 1:12.2 | tracing the continuity of one idea |
| 1:14.8 | over a long time despite big changes and it was already a way of looking historically |
| 1:20.3 | at the mind-body, right? I mean that's how the humorous being this kind of idea |
| 1:27.5 | this idea of the substance in the body that conditions all psychology and all |
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