I've never experienced anything else so obviously liable to cause motivated cognition. I have no accurate way of predicting how I will feel years in the future, because my identification is so strong it would influence me to believe anything in its favor.
In general, it seems to me that none of my thoughts are evidence because the hardware is so biased and I can conceive of no way of correcting for this.
I'm afraid I'm not following. What is the judgement you are attempting to accurately make which your identification is interfering with?
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post, even in Discussion, it goes here.