#the oxford handbook of hypo-egoic phenomena

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The immersive nature of self-as-object processing is manifest in the way we typically do not regard our thoughts as just thoughts.

Rather, we implicitly or explicitly take this mental activity to reflect reality more or less accurately.

It can be morally and epistemically problematic when people do not recognize that their perceptions and beliefs is in fact, a model —schematic or working hypothesis about reality rather than reality itself.

People are incontrovertibly egocentric, self-relevant information is preferentially processed and remembered, and people strive to protect their self-views to the point that they selectively seek confirmatory evidence and otherwise distort reality.