Many of Indiana's people take pride in a self-image derived largely from 19th-century America that values hard work, is oriented to the small town and medium-sized city, and is interested in maintaining the prerogatives of local self-determination.
We know that our mothers' role and all those other influences are reflected in a self-image that grew, stabilized and became firmly rooted in our identities.
In a way, Bongard said, the robot is "conscious" on a primitive level, because it thinks to itself, "What would happen if I do this?" "Whether humans or animals are conscious in a similar way -- do we also think in terms of a self-image, and rehearse actions in our head before trying them out -- is still an open question," he said.
The discussion of face in the sociological literature operates on the assumption that face is an outcome of how a person is regarded by others in formation of a self-image that is an unintended consequence of their behavior and circumstance.
How many eating disorders and broken backs and crushed self-images?" When Jordyn Wieber, the reigning World Champion who was heavily favored to win the all-around this year, didn't qualify for the finals, it seemed as if we might witness the crushing of a self-image in real time.
This theory states that early in life, due to a lack of sensory and motor coordination and the primitive organization of libidinal life, the infant's self-experience is fragmented, and only gradually becomes organized through the recognition of a self-image in the outside world.
"Serenity" throws together, in an unconsidered way, some other substantial themes, including the American way of violence, the transmission of male violence, the inability of American society to protect women and children from domestic abusers, the societal and personal exactions of an unjustified war, and the earnest role of popular digital entertainment in creating a self-image.
It ceases to operate as a backgrounded means of intersubjective exchanges between individuals, in which a self-image is reflexively formed through a sense of how a person is perceived by others.
It adds the largely hitherto ignored element architecture in the creation of a self-image for the Russian state, its rules, and citizens...
Just hearing my cellmate breathe — within a month, I was filled with such rage, I was, like, 'I want to fucking stab you in the neck!' " To preserve a self-image that no longer encompassed stabbings, James wrote a lot in his head and grimly ran out the clock.
As a Ph.D. student at UCLA in the 70s, I had a self-image of being 'hip.' I believed I was involved in discovering deeper human understanding, self-actualization and profound wisdom.
