Cyber-Consciousness Between Self Perception and Body Image

Cristina-Georgiana Voicu

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Cyber-Consciousness Between Self Perception and Body Image

Cristina-Georgiana Voicu

Published in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (Volume 4, Issue 2)

Received: 7 February 2015 Accepted: 25 February 2015 Published: 2 March 2015

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This paper deals with the ontology of mind and its objective reality of being in certain states of self modified by consciousness, which implies a loss of differentiation between physicality and object. By entering the self, the ego becomes conscious to itself. Through this paper we propose to explore a new and less studied concept, i.e. the “virtual self”. The issue of creating another identity in the online environment is quite complex, and has an extremely surprising impact, since the individuals’ motivations are different, not being any pattern in this regard. For example, in case of some individuals the self-consciousness changes (also become a kind of cyber-consciousness) are just a variation of the same figures which reveal the repressed aspects of real life, being no link to the real self.

Published in	Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (Volume 4, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.pbs.20150402.14
Page(s)	58-63
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2015. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Self Perception, Otherness, Body Image, Cyber-Consciousness, Virtual Self

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Romanian Academy, Ia?i, Romania

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