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The self produced by combinations of emotionally indexed memories.
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Identity
The self produced by combinations of emotionally indexed memories.
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In Jiang's reading, Dido's love for Aeneas costs her pride, reputation, people, and identity, the opposite of Odysseus being resurrected by returning home to Penelope.
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Jiang's standard psychology model says experiences become emotional memories, memories organize identity, and identity shapes worldview, preference, decisions, and future perception.
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Jiang models identity and consciousness as a chain in which experiences become short-term memories, the brain filters them through emotions, emotionally strong memories enter identity, and unemotional experiences are discarded.
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A person has context-specific identities, such as school, home, or America identities, because different social and cultural landscapes require different navigational selves.
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Worldview is defined as identity: who you are, how you perceive the world, and how you perceive yourself; it guides decisions, social relationships, and behavior.
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Jiang says player interests come from the superstructure of society and culture, but game theory also has to see that each player is simultaneously playing several other games through several identities.
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He models parents as people with multiple identities: in the family game they compete with siblings by producing visible success, while in the colleague game they seek social acceptance through children who fit the colleague network.
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Jiang says the Khazar Empire saw itself as a great power that needed a distinct identity to avoid absorption by Christian Byzantium or the Muslim Abbasids.
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"Why labor to rigor fleet when the winter's raw, to risk the deep wind north winds closing in? You crawl, heartless. Even if you..."
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"All right, okay, so two things to remember, okay? The first thing is that in the Odyssey, the journey where it ends, the destination,..."
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"...allowed him to escape his trauma and rebuild his sense of identity is going home and finding love again. And this love is able..."
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"...then these emotions are organized in a way that creates an identity. All right? And different memories can create different identities. And together, we..."
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"Okay. All right. So to understand this, let's discuss how identity, how personality, how personality, how personality how consciousness is created. Okay? So basically..."
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"Okay? So your identity in a school will be different from your identity at home or your identity when you go to America. Okay?..."
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"So, in the future, will we learn more about how do we find out what causes different stakeholders to have different interests? Like, in..."
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"...games. Okay? So, let's look at parents. Okay. Parents have different identities. They are family. They are colleagues. Okay? And depending on their identity,..."
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"That's a game they're playing. All right? But they have colleagues. You have colleagues. And the game you're trying to play there is to..."
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"...the world. But to do that, it needs its own distinct identity. So it's not going to convert to Christianity or Islam, right? Keep..."
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"At the same time, their intimate contacts with the Byzantium and the Caliphate had taught the Khazars at their primitive shamanism was not only..."
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"Yeah, okay, this is a very simple idea. Monotheism is very important because the idea of one god gives ultimate authority to one person,..."
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The Iliad begins as a war of wills and ends as a metaphysics of love: memory is emotion, poetry is consciousness in motion, forgiveness defeats revenge, and forced perspective-switching becomes the big bang of...
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A source-grounded reading of the Iliad as self-recognition: Achilles becomes a mirror for humiliation and pride, Homeric speech tries to control reality, and the ancient poet becomes prophet and teacher because truth is beautiful,...
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School says it teaches literacy, competence, creativity, and lifelong learning.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's claim that Jewish identity is not treated here as simple continuity from ancient Israel, but as a Persian imperial construction: a Bible-shaped, temple-centered, purity-bound people made to stabilize and...
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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The lecture turns meritocracy from a school virtue into a trauma machine: Harvard invents selection as power preservation, Yale trains insecurity as ambition, and the winners become actors who can promise goodness while serving...
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