Three of the most common biases of the self are Egocentricism, Benefectance, Energy Conservatism. Egocentrism treats the self as more relevant than other perspectives, like a totalitarian information control center. Benefectance tends to make the self make good moral claims about itself, and not bad ones, which leads to a redirection of responsibility when shit hits the fan. Energy conservatism is a general resistance against change to beliefs about our self.[^1] How does this map onto philosophical categories? Egocentrism is an epistemological bias. Benefectance is a moral bias. Energy conservatism does not squarely fit in any philosophical categories that come to mind. The closest I could think of is logical consistency of the self, since energy conservatism prevents cognitive dissonance, which is caused by contradictions in internal logic. [^1]: [[Keith Campbell]], Lecture 2 of [[PA Psychology of the Self]], [[Peterson Academy]].