Fugues

Gabriel Berezin

What is Fugues? The quick answer - it’s The Moth with neuroscience and music (and a bit of sci-fi...) The detailed answer - a fugue, conventionally, is: (1) a piece of music with multiple melodies played at the same time and... (2) a trance state where a person experiences amnesia, and loses their sense of self. Both uses of the word have a beginning, middle and end. Taking a bit of license, each story we tell in this podcast will be called a fugue. And each fugue will illustrate a handful of mental ingredients. A fugue will also refer to any te...