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Georg Northoff

Georg Northoff

Neuroscientist

Jul 28, 2026

7:58
So, of course, you already read my mind the example I want to bring.
8:03
Psychoanalysts are dangerous.
8:05
I know that.
8:07
So, no, it's a good example.
8:10
So speak with a severely depressed patient.
8:13
Look into the original description of Freud about melancholia.

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24:54
patient.
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29:33
I'm aware that your mind could race a million miles ahead here and I'm like, well, what's the room now?
29:40
This is very interesting also for the audience because what is clashing here, it's your cognitive view of things, which is the standard view in current cognitive neuroscience.
29:52
They perceive brain activity only through the angle of cognition.
29:57
Maybe a little bit of experience, but that's only as an adjunct.
30:02
And I'm turning things completely.
30:04
And for you, time is a derivative of that cognitive function.
30:09
But for me, for you, time is just a perception and cognition of time.

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44:46
What do you mean by self here? What is the neuroscientific kind of literature here? What is meant by self there?

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