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THE IDEA OF SELF (Identity (Western Philosophy (Memory Theory (Remembering…

- - - - There is an essential core to identity
    - - Student
        Computer Science Major
        Lives in Harrisonburg
        Part of the JMU Unix Users Group
    - - Intellectually curious
        Kind
        Analytical
        Leader
    - - How personal identity persists over time because you remain in the same body from birth to death
    - - Personal identity persisting over time due to retaining memories of yourself at different points and each of those memories is connected to one before it
      - Selfhood is constructed by the memories we retain that shape us
      - The self is constantly changing as we experience different things and gain new memories
      - Remembering and Experiencing Self
        
        Remembering Self: the memory of an experience and the feelings that you have associated with that event
        
        Experience Self: the feelings associated with an event while it is happening
        
        The two selves can differ, as I discovered in my Digital Narrative Project. I tend to remember things in a more positive way than how they actually happened
        
        Ted Talk
    - - There is no fixed identity
      - Continuous change drives the evolution of identity
      - Judgement stems from the belief that there is a fixed self and one must apply decisions and life to that core persona
      - Accepting evolving character allows for metamorphosis
    - - You can never step in the same river twice
    - - There is a persistent self
    - - The self is always changing and lacks a binding essential characteristic
  - - - There are layers with no essential continuous core
    - - This is a Buddhists' concept of self
      - A person can be described using 5 aggregates:
        
        form (body)
        
        feelings
        
        perception
        
        mental formations
        
        consciousnes
      - Self doesn't fit into any of these. Self also implies some sort of control; however, you cannot control any of the 5 aggregates
      - Thus self does not exist
        
        This concept was the hardest for me to grasp because of how ingrained the concept of self is into western culture
    - - In the western world, we tend to look at the earth and whats around that and try to explain it more than learn from it. Taoist on the other hand, look at the work and appreciate it for what it is and the beauty and knowledge that it holds.
      - Looks at the flow of the universe (the Tao or the way) and attempts to mimic it, using non-resistance tactics
      - Large focus on opposites. There can't be good without the concept of evil. There can't be something without the concept of nothing.
      - This concept was the most interesting to me. It really fits well with my religious beliefs and love of nature. I plan on looking into more in the future
    - - We can only discover the "self" from within through silent awareness
      - Gangaji was a modern day teacher of this and she stressed discovering silent awareness in all things as crucial to living a life of happiness
      - Through mindfulness you can being to discover your silent awareness to find your "self", and once you do that, "only good news awaits you"
  - - - Humans are a network, a brain
      - There is no single brain structure that embodies the self
      - How do our "selves" interact with and influence one another
      - Historical Events
        
        9/11
        
        2008 Recession
        
        Wars
    - - Family
        
        Mom, Dad, Aiden, Brody, Close extended family
        
        Influence how I think, act, communicate, and much more
      - Religious Background
        
        Raised methodist, went to a mennonite high school, now I'm agnostic
        
        Never liked being told what to think
      - Geographic Location
        
        Born and lived in Seattle, WA for the first 3 years of my life
        
        Love rainy weather
      - Change
        
        We change much more and for much longer than we think we do
        
        Ted Talk
      - Choice
        
        Bandersnatch brought up the idea of freedom and how much freedom do we actually have in terms of the choices we make
        
        Our subconsciousness seemingly makes choices for use before we are even fully aware of the choice we want to make
        
        Article
- - - - How the body is used in art to understand gender and identity
      - Marina Abramović: The artist is present
    - - The relationships between gender and society (constructions of masculinity and femininity)
    - - How multiple identities intersect and or complicate the notion of the self
  - - - We use our experiences (narratives) to define our self identity and, in turn, our self identity influences are future experiences
    - - Rhetorical self consists of the two words, 'I say'
      - Self based on communication
- - - - How are we one self if our body is an ecosystem of many?
  - - - Nothing exists until we observe it. Are things real when we cant see them?
- - - - Extension of self
      - Shapes perception of what is beautiful
      - Iconic selfie: repeating selfie patterns needed for a proper experience of an event
    - - We get validation from comments on social media
      - We put value in virtual things like video game
        
        My friends and I get in to arguments over things in video games that aren't even real
      - We share almost every aspect of our lives online
    - - Phones and social media has caused our society to interact less with one another
      - Because we can curate our social media feed, we can create a completely different vision of self online
        
        Many of my friends have "finstas" or instagram account that they post on without filtering the shitty parts of their life. On their actual accounts, it looks like their lives are perfect
    - - This showed a possible dystopia where social media rule the actions of daily life
        
        This can already be seen in some people, though the episode explores the absolute extreme of this
  - - - The smartphone and social media has caused members of iGen to be more safe than every before, but that is because they hardly leave their houses any more
      - iGen suffers from more depression and mental illness than any other generation before them
      - Members of iGen don't see each other as much. This is in big part because "their social life is lived on their phone.
    - - Photographs can assist the photographer’s memory of the event but also shape the way someone else recalls it
    - - Phones and social media store our memories for us