The great American psychologist William James identified at least three such facets: the material self, which includes everything I consider as me or mine; the social self, which depends on my interactions with others (“a man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him and carry an image of him in their mind”); and the spiritual self (“a man’s inner or subjective being, his psychic faculties or dispositions”).The search for the self is also well served by thinking of it in terms of two categories: the “self-as-object” and the “self-as-subject.” It turns out that some aspects of the self are objects to itself.

It's very refreshing to see the Coen brothers get over their last disaster of "State and Main" with such panache, aided of course by their star, Billy Bob Thornton and the ensemble cast and a great and ironic story.

I was well aware of the ability to do noir, as evidenced by 'Blood Simple', as well as many-layered, dialogue-driven narratives as in 'Miller's Crossing.' Michaele sits on a chair next to him. Does he now have a body or doesn’t he? .

“Our patient presented to us with beliefs like ‘I think I am dead and what I am is not me,’ ‘I do not exist,’ ‘there is nothing in my brain, just vacuum,’ and ‘it is infectious and I’m infecting my close relatives and I am responsible for all their suffering,’” Sayantanava Mitra of the Sarojini Naidu Medical College, Agra, India, wrote to me in an email.Mitra’s team scanned her and the MRI scan revealed that the frontotemporal brain regions had atrophied. The performances are top notch with a stand out by lead Billy Bob Thorton.

Frances McDormand (Doris Crane) is as usual fantastic. Children with autism are usually unable to instinctively “read” others’ minds, which then leads to problems relating socially to others, but is this ability also tied to reading one’s own mind and hence self-awareness?

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The second is an alteration in one’s ability to reason about that experience. Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen.

It almost doubles as the theme; you just have to tweak the last part. He finally meets a group of Buddhist monks. The Edge of Physics: A Journey to Earth's Extremes to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Neuroscience doesn’t have an answer so far. “When he pulled on a cigarette, nothing happened,” Zeman told me. There’s tantalizing new work suggesting that the roots of this impairment lie in an autistic brain’s inability to make sense of the body and its interactions with the environment, leading first to an uncertain bodily self and then to behavioral problems.Out-of-body experiences and the more complex doppelgänger effect (in which people perceive and interact with a duplicate of their own body) reveal that even the most basic things we take for granted—being grounded in a body, identifying with it, and viewing the world from behind our eyes—can be disrupted, thus giving us a glimpse of the components necessary for a low-level self that potentially precedes all else.Ecstatic epilepsy begets a condition that borders on the mystical, when we are truly here and now, fully aware of our own being, yet paradoxically bereft of boundaries, leading to a feeling of transcendental oneness. A depression far more serious than most of us can understand. Would his delusion have been different in an era when the legal definition of death did not include brain death?Over the course of his medical practice, Zeman had only ever seen one other case of someone claiming to be dead. Interestingly, this man had actually contracted syphilis while serving in the military as a young man (Cohen tested him for antibodies to confirm). This book describes research done on people with injuries, diseases, or abnormalities of the brain that has helped to pinpoint brain regions involved in the concept of the self. and gives continuity and dignity to human life. The acting is great... Thornton, McDormand, Gandolfini, Johansson, Shalhoub... everyone is great.