Aging

Alzheimer’s on the Mind

The Mind  |  The Tribe   |   Franklyn Wu  |   April 17, 2011, 5:58 pm

In his Discourse on Method (1637), René Descartes famously penned “Je pense donc je suis” (I think therefore I am), which became one of the bedrocks of modern Western philosophy. We are possessive of our thoughts (i.e. intellectual property). We strongly identify with, and generally assume, not only the supremacy, but also the primacy of [...]