The Traps of the Ego

Thinking that we deserve the best, and chasing happiness and virtue, feed the ego.

Hermes Solenzol
Science and Philosophy
11 min readMar 21

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Coyote sitting on top of snow cliff
Coyote pondering. Photo by the author.

What is the ego?

The ego is not who you are.

The ego is not your self. It is not ‘the thinker of thoughts’, that illusory being that we believe does things around inside our mind.

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Hermes Solenzol
Science and Philosophy

Professor of neuroscience. Pain researcher. Old-school Leftist. Science, philosophy, politics and kinky sex. https://www.hermessolenzol.com/en