Glossary
The self produced by combinations of emotionally indexed memories.
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Identity
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...of your emotions, this then leads to your worldview or your identity. And then that becomes part of your senses, which then determines what..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...of your emotions, this then leads to your worldview or your identity. And then that becomes part of your senses, which then determines what..."
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He claims that the ordering of emotional categories generates worldview and identity, which then feeds back into perception and recall.
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He says the point of memory is not stockpiling neutral information but developing a worldview.
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For Jiang, worldview matters because it tells a person their place in society, their relation to others, and how to navigate social life.
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He sharpens that framing into the provocative claim that who you really are is your subconscious rather than your conscious self-image.
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The canto's punishment imagery centers on unstable identity: thieves and impostors undergo repeated bodily merger, exchange, and animalization rather than a single fixed torment.
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Jiang insists that individuality is only real when anchored to other people rather than imagined as a solitary possession.
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Jiang uses Dante's own exile from Florence to argue that exile can be worse than execution because it strips away the social world that makes a person who he is.
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Gianni Schicchi appears here as an impostor who took another's identity in order to manipulate a will.
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"...of your emotions, this then leads to your worldview or your identity. And then that becomes part of your senses, which then determines what..."
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"So, yeah, so the memories are divided into emotional values. You remember what has emotional value unless you use brute memorization to remember useless..."
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"Okay, yeah. So, again, this is neuroscience, okay? They do divide between a conscious and a subconscious, right? Subconscious. The conscious is this decision..."
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"His crooked deeds, his crooked deeds ended beneath the club of Hercules who may have given him a hundred blows, but he was not..."
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"It gripped his belly with his middle feet and with its forefeet grappled his two arms, and then it sank its teeth in both..."
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"Then two heads were already joined in one, when in one face where two had been dissolved, two intermingled shapes appeared to us. Two..."
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"tail took upon itself the fork, the other gradually lost, its skin grew soft, the other skin grew hard. I saw the arms that..."
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"He who was lying down thrust out his snout, and even as the snail hauls in its horns he drew his ears straight back..."
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"right but what he's saying is that individually individual has been anchored to other people you can only be an individual um with other..."
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"...be who i am about florence okay you're taking away my identity does that"
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"He can't. She came to sin with him by falsely taking another shape upon herself. Just as the other phantom who goes there had..."
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Jiang turns late Inferno and early Purgatorio into a struggle over imagination itself.
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