“To thine own self be true,” says Polonius in Hamlet. This well known quote is often used to discuss the need to be honest with ourselves. What does that mean exactly? In this series, I propose to you that in order for us to be true to ourselves, we must first understand what our true self is, what it represents. On the featured image for this post, I picked an existing model that depicts the notion of the self as the result of three internal factors and an external one:
- Self Concept
- Self knowledge
- Self Esteem
- and the Social Self
In the following series of posts, I will create tools and discussion points to help us understand “the self”, so that when we talk about things like self esteem, or self actualization, or anything dealing with the notion of “the self” that we have a common ground and understanding. While there are many models for the self, my goal is to contract or expand the model as we look for enough dimensions to the model in order to feel like we have enough depth to adequately understand what is because ultimately we will use this information to derive computer models of identity that make sense beyond just the utility of cyber security. In other words, this is an experiment to map the human concept of self and create a model that can later be used to closely track if a computational model is sufficient (whether it needs to or not can be debated) so it can be used for either machine or human processing.