paragraph 4, A significant aspect of the Self’s current development relates to constructed woman and her expression within the established fields of social landscaping. The filter phenomenon of instagram or the botox trend allowing for face-freezing: an active limitation on expression itself. In the name of delineated and orchestrated beauty, the breadth of female expression has been silenced not by words but through the influence of the face itself. Why is this important? What have we lost? In limiting what is expressed, we have not only informed our communication and this distinctive facet of Woman’s expression, we have also influenced the Woman herself. The established neuroscientific study of human expression (Niedenthal et al.) has only become more relevant with the advancement in Artificial Intelligence (Fridman). That said, if brain chemistry is influenced by the face’s expression, in that a smile informs our somatic instrument as does a frown, we can take this concern one step further. By normalizing the limitations or imposed limits of this experience, we influence how Woman can exist, not only to another, but directly to herself. We have seen this readily played out with the naturalization of the birth control pill: how that influences her relationship to the planet’s rhythms and the celestial cycles, or how the daily hormone influences her interpersonal experience with its impact on pheromones (Lanfranchi). We have also seen this more generally with the long held pathologization of emotion within social/societal context, Foucault spoke of this well. But as Fanon would have it, how has this internalization of what is felt and institutionally undermined influenced the engagement of the people it targets? We self-policed and practiced what is encouraged and allowed. We are socialized humans and in that way constructed. Now, as with the birth control hormones or the pathologization of emotion, the constructed self informs the breadth of Womans’ experience of self directly within the new terrain of the face and limited field of her expression – an endangered aspect of realization that, could be subjectively and scientifically argued, as having great cognitive value while having been undermined through the ‘false’ binary of beauty capitalism and the supporting sublimating discourse of the programing arena. For the perspective of human narrative: an expressed woman is not ugly, but in doing so we have not only silenced her, we have silenced her bio-feedback within her very self. 

Barnard College Columbia university, cognitive science department 2023. PAPER TITLE: from the thought-scape of my-Self: Cognitive Science as an agent to further illuminate and mitigate the normalized and their re-frame by Julia Pearl Robbins “Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for my part am fascinated by the search for a one-dimensional object that casts no shadow at all” - Marcel Duchamp