Let me break this down really simply: I didn't try restating your question out of some zen "grasp the pebble from my hand" thing. I honestly don't understand your questions half the time. "Would it be an act of dehumanization to remove yourself from the controls of your own perception" is like a Psychic TV lyric. I don't know what you mean by that. I think you mean "Is the effect as bad if you choose to opt out?" In which case I say "no, because you're choosing." But I'm just guessing here, man. The fact that "what I worded is just as interesting" to you when I was literally trying to say the same thing using simpler language illustrates that a whole bunch is being lost in translation. I mean, do me a solid and rewrite this sentence: ...such that a 4th grader could break it down. We'll talk.
To break down the walls of human social behavior that evolution constructed since we first left the trees, that could arguably be more of a detriment to us now.