Why does a representation feel like an owner?
What it argues
The self is a model the brain builds of itself, and it is transparent: you see through it rather than at it, which is why it feels like an owner rather than a representation. There is no additional entity behind the model. This is the rigorous statement of a conclusion the mystics reached by other means and without the argument.
The probe
Name three facts about yourself your self-model cannot represent from the inside: your blind spot, your face as others see it, your own death.
The source
The Ego Tunnel, after Being No One — Thomas Metzinger, 2009. The link goes to the text or to a catalogue record for it, not to a summary. This one is a catalogue record: the entry gives you the question and the probe, not the argument in the author's words.