The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides.
Gayle FormanTags: life questions identity self vague identities unclear
Peter." The fine hair along her spine rising, Vicky could feel the power in a name. This is who you are, it said. Come back to us.
Tanya HuffTags: identity who-you-are family-love power-in-a-name
The neural basis for the self, as I see it, resides with the continuous reactivation of at least two sets of representations. One set concerns representations of key events in an individual's autobiography, on the basis of which a notion of identity can be reconstructed repeatedly, by partial activation in topologically organized sensory maps. ...
In brief, the endless reactivation of updated images about our identity (a combination of memories of the past and of the planned future) constitutes a sizable part of the state of self as I understand it.
The second set of representations underlying the neural self consists of the primordial representations of an individual's body ... Of necessity, this encompasses background body states and emotional states. The collective representation of the body constitute the basis for a "concept" of self, much as a collection of representations of shape, size, color, texture, and taste can constitute the basis for the concept of orange.
Tags: identity mind self connection body senses autobiographical mind-body-connection
The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."
[Keynote Address, University of the Arts, 134th Commencement (Philadelphia, PA, May 17, 2012)]
Tags: individuality life writing identity creative-process
My best works are for me. Not for the world.
Anirudh ArunOur identity is like that of an onion; with each experience we endure, a layer is peeled away, finally revealing who we really are at the core.
Afnan Ahmad MiaTags: identity experinces
Our identity has already been chosen for us; but it is up to us to accept it, or fight and change it.
Afnan Ahmad MiaTags: identity identity-crisis
Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.
V.S. RamachandranTags: humanity identity human evolution cognition brains
Maybe freedom means defining yourself any way you want to be.
Amy Hill HearthTags: identity
You can't see yourself. You know what you look like because of mirrors and photographs, but out there in the world, as you move among your fellow human beings, whether strangers or friends or the most intimate beloveds, your own face is invisible to you. You can see other parts of yourself, arms and legs, hands and feet, shoulders and torso, but only from the front, nothing of the back except the backs of your legs if you twist them into the right position, but not your face, never your face, and in the end - at least as far as others are concerned - your face is who you are, the essential fact of your identity. Passports do not contain pictures of hands and feet. Even you, who have lived inside your body for sixty-four years now, would probably be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot, not to speak of your ear, or your elbow, or one of your eyes in close-up. All so familiar to you in the context of the whole, but utterly anonymous when taken piece by piece. We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.
Paul AusterTags: identity self-reflection
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