Is the Self a Construction?

i'm a ball of energy, flonger o, te ony, rank. And ego doesn't really is gone. When you're anxious, the bigthe self is kind of shivering in a corner there. The thing we know, we know about the brainat the self is is a construction. It's an illusionn does that mean? Well, er, the brain acts as a prediction machine. So what you see is essentially what you predict. But that can become a trap and some psychodelics seem to act by disrupting that prediction mechanism which can have bad consequences or interesting consequences.