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What Role Does Language Play in Self-Identity? → Question lifestyle.sustainability-directory.com Sustainability Directory Mar 24, 2025 4 facts

claimLanguage serves as a narrative thread that connects an individual's past, present, and future selves.

claimIn academic circles, language is considered a complex system that is intimately tied to the construction and performance of selfhood.

claimLanguage functions as an instrument for constructing, negotiating, and performing selfhood, rather than merely serving as a tool for communication.

referenceAcademic examination of language's role in self-identity utilizes sociolinguistic theories, critical discourse analysis, and psychological frameworks to view language as a system for the construction, negotiation, and performance of selfhood.

Self, selfhood and understanding - infed.org infed.org infed.org 2 facts

claimThe Hindu approach to selfhood strives to achieve union with the immutable self, which is ultimately indistinguishable from deity and the totality of the universe, according to Marsella et al. (1985).

referenceIn 'The Feeling of What Happens,' Antonio Damasio posits that brain processes generate conscious experiences, which he characterizes as a 'movie in the brain,' and that selfhood arises from the appearance of an owner and observer for that movie.

Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Howard Robinson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Aug 19, 2003 1 fact

quoteJohn Foster (1991) wrote: '…it seems to me that when I focus on myself introspectively, I am not only aware of being in a certain mental condition; I am also aware, with the same kind of immediacy, of being a certain sort of thing…It will now be asked: ‘Well, what is this nature, this sortal attribute? Let's have it specified!’ But such a demand is misconceived. Of course, I can give it a verbal label: for instance, I can call it ‘subjectness’ or ‘selfhood’. But unless they are interpreted ‘ostensively’, by reference to what is revealed by introspective awareness, such labels will not convey anything over and above the nominal essence of the term ‘basic subject’. In this respect, however, there is no difference between this attribute, which constitutes the subject's essential nature, and the specific psychological attributes of his conscious life…'

Exploring the Influence of Language on Identity and Perception thespanishgroup.org The Spanish Group Sep 20, 2025 1 fact

claimMultilingual individuals may experience different emotional states, such as pride or nostalgia, when switching languages because different languages provide distinct channels for expressing different facets of the self.

Self-Consciousness - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu MIT Press Jul 24, 2024 1 fact

claimJohn Locke (1632–1704) defined selfhood in terms of self-consciousness and extended the boundaries of selfhood to include the body.

The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org Frontiers in Psychology Nov 25, 2024 1 fact

claimTheories that define consciousness as dependent on the emergence of a self posit that selfhood and agency must be learned and achieved, as argued by Marchetti (2022).

The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org Frontiers 1 fact

claimIn humans, the act of knowing is linked to selfhood, where the ability to observe inner neuronal occurrences creates an internal separation between the subject (the 'I' or 'self') and objects (body, actions, emotions, will, and thoughts).

Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness | Biological Theory link.springer.com Springer Sep 14, 2022 1 fact

perspectiveThe author argues that the explosion in biological complexity was enabled by a transition in the organization of action selection, which represents the dawn of subjectivity prior to the development of sensory experience and selfhood.

Psychedelics and Consciousness: Distinctions, Demarcations, and ... blossomanalysis.com Blossom Analysis 1 fact

claimPsychedelics are useful tools for investigating the 'easy problems of consciousness,' which involve the relations between subjectivity, brain function, and behavior, including perception, attention, and selfhood.

Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jul 13, 2017 1 fact

referenceDan Zahavi authored the book 'Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective', published in 2005 by MIT Press in Cambridge, MA.

AN EXPANDED VIEW FROM A SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONIST ... - jstor jstor.org JSTOR 1 fact

claimThe article 'An Expanded View from a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective' focuses on language use to examine the substantive, symbolically constituted features of selfhood.

How Is Language Connected to Identity? → Question lifestyle.sustainability-directory.com Sustainability Directory Sep 13, 2025 1 fact

claimAcademic perspectives on language define it as a constitutive force that dynamically shapes selfhood and social affiliations, rather than merely reflecting a pre-existing identity.

AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) conspicuouscognition.com Conspicuous Cognition Feb 17, 2026 1 fact

claimExperiences of selfhood are underpinned by brain-based 'best guesses' about the state of the body, a process referred to as interoceptive inference.

David Chalmers Thinks the Hard Problem Is Really Hard scientificamerican.com Scientific American Apr 10, 2017 1 fact

claimHerbert Feigl separated the mind-body problem into the sub-problems of sentience, sapience, and selfhood during the 1950s.

Speaking Self: How Language Molds Our Identity and Shapes Our ... voccent.medium.com Medium Nov 5, 2023 1 fact

claimMultilingual speakers may feel like different people when alternating between the languages they speak.