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Unified entity with which we intuitively self-identify
- This concept refers to a unified entity with which we intuitively self-identify, and that (1) has access to all and only the information that we ourselves are conscious of and (2) uses that information to make deliberative decisions about how to act in the world.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810016303774A neuro-cognitive defense of the unified self - ScienceDirect
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Apr 25, 2014 · If you have ever been surprised by how you acted or felt confused, conflicted, or uncertain about who you truly are, or realized how dramatically different you feel in different situations or in...
This chapter argues that Nietzschean refers to a relation between drives and conscious thought: unity obtains when the agent’s attitude toward her own action is stable under the revelation of further information about the action’s etiology.
Jul 13, 2017 · Self-consciousness can be understood as an awareness of oneself. But a self-conscious subject is not just aware of something that merely happens to be themselves, as one is if one sees an old photograph without realising that it is of oneself.
Our fundamental tactic of self‐protection, self‐control, and self‐ definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories; and more particularly concocting and controlling the story we tell others—and ourselves—about who we are. …
This article focuses on the “me” that will be referred to interchangeably as either the “self” or “identity.” We define the self as a multifaceted, dynamic, and temporally continuous set of mental self-representations.
Jul 26, 2004 · When one is conscious of oneself and one’s states by doing cognitive and perceptual acts, one is conscious of oneself as spontaneous, rational, self-legislating, free—as the doer of deeds, not just as a passive receptacle for representations: “I exist as an intelligence which is conscious solely of its power of combination” (B158–159 ...
In Locke’s mind, conscious awareness and memory of previous experiences are the keys to understanding the self. In other words, you have a coherent concept of your self as a personal identity because you are aware of your self when you are thinking, feeling, and willing.
