In classical Buddhist terminology, the narrative “I” is the source of a mental affliction called “the conceit I am,” or the “inherent sense of self.” The conceptualized “self” produced by discriminating sub-minds gives rise to the fetter of “personality view,” of attachment to the ego-construct as self-existently real. Upon “stream-entry” (sotāpanna), the fetter of “personality view,” or belief in the reality of the mind-constructed self, is shed. However, both the narrative “I,” and the inherent sense of being a separate self that it gives rise to, remain until the fourth and final stage of
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