Propositional attitudes or purposive actions are cases of experience where a self-centre is indirectly indicated, triangulated backwards as it were. It is the strong belief that accompanies these mundane instances that constitutes the belief in something like an 'inherent self-nature' such as certain people are always banging on about. It isn't a belief in the same sense as a belief in an explicit positing, but a sort of indirect version, a belief that lives in the sinews rather than in the bones, perhaps, a movable or tactical belief. A different and even more powerful version of such a belief inhabits desire and fear, one that is both more vivid and temporally displaced. In desire, the vividly imagined fantasm of the self fulfilled in enjoyment is entirely off to the side - you feel only an utmost obligation towards it since it seems to be more 'you' than you are, as if you are its servant and your reward should you succeed will be an almost perfect participation in its anticipated realisation. Fear seems to be the negative of this same pattern. The fictions of experience always posit a centre that is elsewhere. To bring experience into coincidence with itself is to go against the grain and to sacrifice everything either desirable or fearful.