PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -In The Self Illusion, Dr. Bruce Hood reveals how the self emerges during childhood and how the architecture of the developing brain enables us to become social animals dependent on each other. He explains that self is the product of our relationships and interactions with others, and it exists only in our brains.

Detailed explanation-2: -We see our self in that mirror. This is who we are. The daily experience of the self is so familiar, and yet the brain science shows that this sense of the self is an illusion.

Detailed explanation-3: -Body illusions refer to those psychological phenomena in which the perception of one’s own body importantly deviates from the configuration of the physical one, e.g., in terms of size, location, or ownership.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hume maintained that we have never had such impression; therefore, it is impossible to have an idea of it (Hume 1739, p. 251). Thus, the idea of the self is nothing but an illusion.