Dr. George D. Stanciulescu

14/03/2026

Ecce Spiritus in Machina https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUydz_7DUtF/?igsh=YzR5MDJsMmJvcms=

15/02/2026

How is AI shaping who we think we are?
Is the Algorithm becoming the subtle co-author of a new, commodified selfhood?

Today it seems easy to outsource our:
● decisions to predictive algorithms
● workflow and creativity to generative models
● self-expression and preferences to AI assistants.

Welcome to "The Imported Self": a new identity framework that reveals some of the psychological and philosophical implications of AI becoming a crucial part of our subjective formation.

Full paper:

https://www.academia.edu/150257450/Imported_Self_Theory_IST_AI_Disposable_Identity_and_the_Collapse_of_Ideal_Self_Sovereignty

10/02/2026

Excited to share that my "Triadic Self Theory: Identity as Oscillation, Strategy and Social Extraction" is now available on SSRN / Elsevier Ltd

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6061254

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.

Find out more by clicking the link in comments.

21/01/2026

Sometimes the only way to cope with the world is to write your way out of it.

In 2022, I began sketching a theory on why authenticity—what we’re told is “being true to yourself”—can feel like a trap.

After some delays, the full pre-print is now finally public, not just as an academic paper, but also as a survival manual for a burnout society.

It argues that "finding yourself" is the wrong goal, while "protecting yourself" is the true necessity.

Read the full theory here:

Zenodo:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18329345

or

Social Sciences Research Network:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6061254

09/04/2025

I turned to ChatGPT for a casually mirroring reality check.

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"

12/08/2024

Many are too afraid of being afraid, so they dismiss hypnotherapy.

Many are too afraid of losing their sense of self while they're already facing Selfrupcy, by ignoring the fact they are already hypnotized by their own limiting beliefs, possessions (or lack of), achievements (or lack of), (self)love or lack of, values (or lack of).

Even a paradise becomes a jail when you stay too much in it, so do not be afraid to lose it.

You are here to experiment with the disposable and accept the journey.

Get to work and if you need guidance, look for the sky and for my contact details :)

02/08/2024

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30/07/2024

You choose to change your clothes, your jobs, your status, your holiday spots, your social media photos way more frequently and easier than you choose to change the relationship with your core self and its externalized ambitions.

Ask yourself:
What's disposable & what needs to stay?

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