A Sense of Self: Memory, the Brain, and Who We Are By Veronica O'Keane

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How do our brains store—and then conjure up—past experiences to make us who we are?A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. This process shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our behavior and feeding our imagination.Psychiatrist Veronica O’Keane has spent many years observing how memory and experience are interwoven. In this rich, fascinating exploration, she asks, among other things: Why can memories feel so real? How are our sensations and perceptions connected with them? Why is place so important in memory? Are there such things as “true” and “false” memories? And, above all, what happens when the process of memory is disrupted by mental illness? O’Keane uses the broken memories of psychosis to illuminate the integrated human brain, offering a new way of thinking about our own personal experiences.Drawing on poignant accounts that include her own experiences, as well as what we can learn from insights in literature and fairytales and the latest neuroscientific research, O’Keane reframes our understanding of the extraordinary puzzle that is the human brain and how it changes during its growth from birth to adolescence and old age. By elucidating this process, she exposes the way that the formation of memory in the brain is vital to the creation of our sense of self.

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This book defies a proper review. Or at least anything remotely resembling a traditional book review. It is a book, but it is more than that. It is a perspective. And it just might change the way you look at the world.I make things for a living. Mine is a world of numbers and fire and gauges of pressures and temperatures and time. But I have always been an armchair philosopher. Philosophy, back in the days of Newton, was a catchall term for all knowledge, including what has come to be known (rather narrowly, to my mind) as scientific knowledge. And that is the way I continue to think of it. Everything is part of the big picture at some level.Physicists used to believe that the world was composed of matter. Until, of course, Einstein and others realized that matter really doesn’t exist. The universe is moving, always. Even the most static elements of our reality are in motion, even if imperceptibly slowly.I am fascinated by that change in perspective because it aligns with my own belief that the discovery of knowledge will never end. There will never come a day, even generations down the road, when the masters of thought and discovery can let out a deep sigh, put their hands on their thighs, and say, “Well, that’s it. We’re done. Let’s call it a lifetime of lifetimes.”This book is all about the brain. And that means, as the author so deftly explains, it’s all about memory – past, present, and future. (No, future memory is not an oxymoron.) That may sound all very clinical, and she does, by necessity, resort to the language of medicine, she uses it only for a lack of a viable alternative and never more than necessary, and she always explains things in alternative terms that any of us can easily comprehend.She does so, in part, by sharing the stories of herself and her patients. They are probably not stories that mirror your own, but you can easily relate to them. They mirror your narrative, whatever that may be, and that mirroring is all so critical to understanding the brain, as she so competently explains.She also explains things in literary and artistic terms that give depth and color to the science. She quotes Proust, if you can believe it. And Albert Camus. And Dylan Thomas. And Samuel Beckett. Have you ever heard of such a thing? A clinical psychiatrist and neuroscientist?But it fits. Because the greatest contribution of this book is the convincing narrative that the world of psychiatry and physics are converging. That, in fact, the world of all knowledge is converging. Reality isn’t just energy, it is something we haven’t even considered yet. And it is far grander and more poetic than anything we can imagine. But it’s all one big picture – the biggest.I am a bit older than the author. And I have to tell you that her perspective brings me a peace that I have only dabbled in up until now. She truly helped me to align my personal kaleidoscope into a picture of peaceful clarity about life and living.She also helped me to bring clarity to some of the anxiety I feel about the world today. We should be consolidating. Instead, we’re specializing. The division of labor is now a division of knowledge. Nobody studies the big picture stuff any more, unless they intend to go into academia. We’ve all become specialists in some narrow field of knowledge, often something to do with data, which isn’t knowledge at all.She doesn’t have all of the answers. She doesn’t pretend to. She has the corners and the outside pieces of the puzzle, however. Or at least enough to form an image. It’s not quite a Seurat, but it’s recognizable.Read it. It will lay down a memory. And while that memory will be overlaid again and again, it will have a lasting impact, conscious or not, on the narrative you ultimately define for yourself.

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