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Everything about Self
Individual person as the object of its own reflective consciousness
In philosophy, the self is an individual's own being, knowledge, and values, and the relationship between these attributes. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SelfA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised LearningInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: As a Man ThinkethThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation EffectsCited 61,406 times
- Go sideways: Philosophy of selfA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Personal identityA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Pronoun Himself, herself, itself, themself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
Pronoun Myself, oneself.
Noun One individual's personality, character, demeanor, or disposition.
Noun The subject of one's own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation Effects
Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.
Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
Soft self-consistent pseudopotentials in a generalized eigenvalue formalism
Self-interaction correction to density-functional approximations for many-electron systems
Self-consistent molecular orbital methods. XX. A basis set for correlated wave functions
Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation.
🆕 Influential since 2022
ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning
WavLM: Large-Scale Self-Supervised Pre-Training for Full Stack Speech Processing
Self-assembled monolayers direct a LiF-rich interphase toward long-life lithium metal batteries
Self-Healing Injectable Hydrogels for Tissue Regeneration
Self-Compassion: Theory, Method, Research, and Intervention
📚 Books worth reading
As a Man ThinkethJames Allen · 1902
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 1626
The art of money getting, or, Golden rules for money gettingP. T. Barnum, P. T. Barnum · 1880
The Power of Your Subconscious MindJoseph Murphy · 1963
Psycho-cyberneticsMaxwell Maltz · 1960
Eat That Frog! 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less TimeBrian Tracy · 2001
The Monk Who Sold His FerrariRobin S. Sharma · 1996
Atomic HabitsJames Clear · 2016
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