selfhood
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The neuroscientist Anil Seth says the brain is a “prediction machine,” and selfhood a useful hallucination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
“Every time you do a practice like that, you’re literally opening up a new neuronal pattern in your brain that expands your selfhood, your ability and that wonderful word we use called ‘resilience.’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2025
Through her art and writing, she explores and dissects mental health, selfhood and relationships.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
In the face of so much frenzied curation and compulsory personal branding, how might a modern human maintain some iota of unshared selfhood, a soupçon of Greta Garbo mystique?
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
We catch this young girl at the dawn of her selfhood.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
