This can be seen either as Richard's gradual disintegration or as his discovery of his real self, something remarkable in the light of the culture of the time (IV, 1, V, 5).
You can lose your sense of self — something Alex has been relentlessly criticized for in the last few years.
This is called the recognition of "self," something that is clearly older than H. sapiens (reviewed in Suddendorf and Collier-Baker 2009: Fig. 4).
She is looking for "a new vision that includes the other in the self," something "beyond the stupid repentance of some or the colonial nostalgia of others".
First, there may be separate decision-making and self-evaluating parts of the self, something akin to an actor-critic architecture in reinforcement learning (Sutton & Barto, 1998).
Rather than being absorbed by our external environments, we are stuck with our inner selves -- something many of us find disquieting.
Given that her former self was something of a parody anyway, there was little dignity in it, even – or perhaps especially – when proceedings were enlivened by escapades with old frienemy Pat, usually drunk and sometimes involving a stolen ice-cream van.
She's quiet, self-contained, something of an enigma; one of those unknowable, mysterious women.
Journalists are barred from entering the monastery, which has made the question of how Kirti became the volcanic heart of this eruption of self-immolations something of a mystery.
If they've made up some ground since on that score, and they have, there's still an undeniably clubby vibe to the whole thing, a feeling they are annually bestowing with self-satisfaction something of great consequence.
