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Not passive but rather spontaneous awarenesses have in ego time an inner pole of identity like that of outer objects and are thus ego acts, acts of the cogito. The ego can be reflectively grasped by the transcendental observer and found to be doing or not doing this or that and also to have habits of various sorts and even character.
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Cairns, D., Embree, L. (2013). The Transcendental Ego. In: Embree, L. (eds) The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Phaenomenologica, vol 207. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5043-2_24
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