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>Something similar happens in Western sciences such as physics and psychology.

I must say, this all sounds like bringing Dennett in through the backdoor. Neither the reductive talk of Materialism nor the esoteric talk of Buddhism have detracted anything from the immanent Self. The plethora of smoke and mirrors that Materialists say are behind the Self and allegedly disprove it require a Self to operate in any capacity. I have found that nothing in the Buddhist model can escape this predicament either. Process and becoming are strictly apophatic ideas, in relation to the Self. Note that the Self in the Gnostic sense is something like the Self in Subjective Idealism, so not the sum of Phenomenal experience and the curator of memories thereof, but the immanent thread of judgement that is refracted into Personas from and among which entropic things like Time or Space emerge before collapsing under their own impotence to match the Truth and Goodness of pure Self-reflection.