Watching her mother's dementia motivated Noga Arikha to study when the "self" ceases to exist
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Watching her mother's dementia motivated Noga Arikha to study when the "self" ceases to exist

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We are who we tell ourselves we are. While Arikha was studying the mysterious conditions of a group of patients in a Paris hospital's neuropsychiatry unit, her mother, the poet Anne Atik, was meanwhile navigating through her own experience of dementia. Then I was getting into the research on interreception and the science of the embodied sense of self, which is developing so fast it's really hard to keep up. I think it's because we're so fascinated with exploring these ideas of "nature versus nurture." To go back to the sense of self, there's no reason to make a border, like nature, nurture.

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