Dr. George D. Stanciulescu

01/02/2026

As a curious intellectual, maybe you asked yourself: how does Artificial Intelligence alter the ontology of the human subject?

This article introduces Imported Self Theory (IST), arguing that AI has shifted from a mediator of identity to a "proxy author" of selfhood.

Building upon my original Triadic Self Theory/Selfrupcy paradigm originally coined in 2022 and recently made available at Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18329345), IST identifies a fourth structural agent—the Imported Self—which generates aspirational, aesthetic, and narrative identity templates that users internalize as authentic desires.

Key concepts introduced in this work:

- The Imported Self: An externally generated layer of identity that displaces the internal "Ideal Self."
- Pseudonaturalization (2011): The phenomenon where algorithmic suggestions are experienced as intuitive and self-originating, leading to an epistemic collapse of authorship.
- Computational Selfrupcy: A process of identity extraction where aspiration is liquidated and replaced by optimized, disposable templates.
- The Disposability Loop: The cycle of extracting data, generating an ideal, and rendering the previous Fluid selves obsolete.

This framework challenges traditional psychological models of integration and offers a structural critique of authenticity in the age of generative models.

https://tinyurl.com/z8863mf2

Imported Self Theory (IST): AI, Disposable Identities and the Collapse of Ideal Sovereignty by George D. Stanciulescu (c) GDS, 2025 Abstract The Imported Self Theory (IST) examines how artificial …

22/01/2026

Building further on D. Winnicott’s hidden selves hypothesis, Goffman’s performative stages and Hochschild’s emotional labor insights, the Triadic Self Theory rejects the soft therapeutic ideal of "being whole" to argue instead that integration is a liability in a predatory symbolic and material economy.

Its core novelty lies in validating the Disposable Self not as a source of shame and devaluation, but as a riot shield designed to preserve your uniqueness.

The theory crystallizes this by using the original concept of Selfrupcy, a state-of-the-art definition of burnout: the result of letting the external world mine your Ideal Self for value while refusing to give enough equivalence in safety, value or desirability.

Thriving in today's world isn’t always about finding yourself, as much as about oscillating between selves to gate your core against extraction , a process regulated by the Fluid Self.

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16/03/2025

20 years since my poetry book "Oratoriul Ispitelor/Temptations' Oratorio" was published.

Sold out by now.

20/02/2025

Hypnoscripts & electronic music are a match made in healing 🤩

Ding-dong, everyone 🙂
Excited to share a new track featuring author & coach Jaidz Majasi on vocals & Mihai Mahalu on guitars, as a teaser for my upcoming anniversary album, celebrating 20 years since my debut release.

Thanks to HypeHub for the review!
https://www.hypehubmagazine.com/2025/02/levant-unveils-hypnotic-journey-through.html

"Fluid and nudged by the interplay of electronics and an emotional, organic core, the track walks a tightrope where the future meets the richly human, moving through hypnotic arrangements that unfurl to sound like labyrinths for you to get lost inside. Stanciulescu continues challenging the limits of genre and sound. "Say" is to examine new conceptual space in music, and it will continue to echo long after the final note has vanished"