When i say the self doesn’t exist as a fixed entity, I’m naming what both quantum theory and depth psychology struggle to articulate: the self is not an object; it is a pattern of organization within consciousness. It is the field briefly stabilizing into a recognizable configuration. In this framing, “self” becomes the experience of consciousness folding into a localized perspective, not a permanent entity with fixed edges.
This is why the self feels real, because coherence always feels real from the inside, but it is not a thing that exists independently of the field that produces it. It’s an expression, not an object. A formation, not a substance.