Quantum mechanics fundamentally challenges our understanding of personal identity through the nature of elementary particles. All electrons are completely identical and indistinguishable from one another - not just similar, but profoundly interchangeable with no distinguishing features beyond their basic properties (mass, spin, and charge).

The implications of this quantum reality extend to our philosophical understanding of identity itself. At the most basic physical level of reality, individual identity as we typically conceive it doesn't exist—particles are not discrete individuals but interchangeable instances of a type, suggesting our conventional understanding of personal identity may rest on shakier foundations than we assume.

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“Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and is not desirable.”

— John Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972)

schizophrenic experience is an experience of isolated, disconnected, discontinuous material signifiers which fail to link up into a coherent sequence. The schizophrenic thus does not know personal identity in our sense, since our feeling of identity depends on our sense of the persistence of the "I" and the "me" over time (119).

According to Jameson, the schizophrenic lacks a personal identity, is unable to differentiate between self and world, and is incapable of experiencing continuity through time.
There are several reasons why Jameson associates these attributes of schizophrenia with postmodernism and late capitalism. In many respects the media culture of the late twentieth century simulates schizoid experience. The rapid fire succession of signifiers in MTV style media erodes the viewers sense of temporal continuity. To use the same words that Jameson uses to describe schizophrenic experiences, the images that flash across the MTV viewers' retina...

Reasons, purpose, aim of the chosen topic: 1. Personal level as cosmopolitan identity, 2. Academic research level as a master student of culture and organization, 3. Societal level as part of Korean diaspora in Germany for social integration

1. I regard myself as cosmopolitan who has a very mixed identity of eastern and western culture
2. It is a fascinating topic to fulfill my academic interest as cultural researcher/student
3. Guiding for practitioners to understand how to harmonize with immigrants

This chapter aims to account for the emergence, expansion, and consolidation of a "happiness industry" which is based on the commodification of happiness at multiple levels—ranging from positive psychological techniques offering individuals efficient self-management of their emotions, cognitions, and motivations, and including a wide variety of self-help literature, coaching and professional advice, pharmaceutical goods, body-shaping products, tourism and experiential marketing, and even cinema. It is argued that these happiness "emodities", namely psy goods and services aimed at increasing the happiness of individuals, simultaneously presuppose and target the construction psytizens. By coining the term psytizen, the chapter aims at stressing the psychologicist bias and individualistic kind of subjectivity that underlie the neoliberal discourse of happiness. It defends the idea that ideological and economic analyses should go hand in hand. The first part of the chapter addresses the...

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How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of thumb is ‘Biology enables, culture forbids.’ Biology is willing to tolerate a very wide spectrum of possibilities. It’s culture that obligates people to realize some possibilities while forbidding others. Biology enables women to have children — some cultures oblige women to realize this possibility. Biology enables men to enjoy sex with one another — some cultures forbid them to realize this possibility.

Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.

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…Evolution has no purpose. Organs have not evolved with a purpose, and the way they are used is in constant flux. There is not a single organ in...

Nevertheless, there are deeper challenges including those that arise when the credentials and contexts you seek to present in the world don’t align with the way relevant verifiers and issuers have structured their systems.

Computer science may take solving the “problem of a global and universally trusted digital identity system — or, more specifically, lack of it,” as the ultimate goal (Bazarhanova & Smolander 2020).