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<b>Title</b> - Francisco Valera. The Emergent Self (Chapter 12).

<b>Keywords</b> - Emergent self, biological identity, autopoiesis – self-production, cellular, neurons, cellular automata, virtual self, deconstruct, Buddhism, selflessness, egolessness, knowledge, life and death.


<b>Thoughts</b> - 
<i>Emergent</i> selves are based on ungrounded processes. A paradox appears between the solidity of what appears to show up and this groundlessness.
The immune system is not spatially fixed, its best understood as an emergent network.


<i>Virtual identities</i>, us, a phenomenon so productive that it doesn’t cease creating new realms : life, mind and societies. 
The virtual self is evident because it provides a surface for interaction between other selves and mediums, it cannot be located i.e. delocalised.
I have various identities that manifest in different modes of interaction. These are my various selves.
Western tradition has avoided the idea of a selfless self, of a virtual self. The egolessness, or selflessness, is the core of Buddhism.


<i>Cellular automata</i> are simple units that receive inputs from immediate neighbours and communicate their internal state to the same immediate neighbours.


“<i>Deconstruct</i> the notion that the brain is processing information and making a representation of the world. Deconstruct the militaristic notion that the immune system is about defense and looking out for invaders. Deconstruct the notion that evolution is about optimising fitness to live in the conditions present in some kind of niche”.


……..an appetizer for thought.
Knowledge coevolves with the knower and not as an outside, objective representation