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  2. Character Is Destiny - Wikipedia

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    Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember is a 2005 book by United States Senator John McCain with Mark Salter. Published by Random House , it is a collection of biographies about individuals from the past and present who, in the authors' view, exemplify the best qualities of character.

  3. Stream of consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Stream of consciousness technique is also used in song lyrics. [48] Songwriters such as Sun Kil Moon [49] [50] and Courtney Barnett [51] use it in their songs. An early example is Outkast's song "A Life in the Day of Benjamin André (Incomplete)" off their 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. [52]

  4. Collective unconscious - Wikipedia

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    The term "collective unconscious" first appeared in Jung's 1916 essay, "The Structure of the Unconscious". [4] This essay distinguishes between the "personal", Freudian unconscious, filled with sexual fantasies and repressed images, and the "collective" unconscious encompassing the soul of humanity at large.

  5. Jungian archetypes - Wikipedia

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    Archetypes are innate universal pre-conscious psychic dispositions, allowing humans to react in a human manner [42] as they form the substrate from which the basic themes of human life emerge. The archetypes are components of the collective unconscious and serve to organize, direct and inform human thought and behavior.

  6. Self-schema - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, for the most part, multiple self-schemas are extremely useful to people in daily life. Subconsciously, they help people make rapid decisions and behave efficiently and appropriately in different situations and with different people. Multiple self-schemas guide what people attend to and how people interpret and use incoming information.

  7. Consciousness - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Henry Huxley for example defends in an essay titled "On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata, and its History" an epiphenomenalist theory of consciousness, according to which consciousness is a causally inert effect of neural activity—"as the steam-whistle which accompanies the work of a locomotive engine is without influence upon ...

  8. Mind uploading in fiction - Wikipedia

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    It is distinct from the concept of transferring a consciousness from one human body to another. [2] [3] It is sometimes applied to a single person and other times to an entire society. [4] Recurring themes in these stories include whether the computerized mind is truly conscious, and if so, whether identity is preserved. [5]

  9. Symbolic convergence theory - Wikipedia

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    The role of consciousness. Within fantasy chains, three phases keep the chains going. They are consciousness-creating, consciousness-raising, and consciousness-sustaining. In the first phase, people come to create a commonality among their group. If the groups share this common fantasy, consciousness-raising will often fall in line next.