What is the "self?"

Dear Pea Nuts you are contemplating all these amazing questions! I should have guessed this one was from you...I am smiling with delight...

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I think of the 'self' simply as an event...no intrinsic existence.

 It's easy to see how a baseball game is an event, everybody coming together for an afternoon, but if you consider, well, a mountain is an event, also...in that everything just comes together for some millions of years, and ultimately disassembles, just like the ball game.

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And thus do we...we ultimately disassemble...we are events.

A person's essential being that distinguishes them from others, especially considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action.

(Of a trimming or cover) of the same material and color as the rest of the item.

Oneself, in particular.

To me, self is my personal reaction to and the acceptance of my body's 5 senses.

I agree mostly with the others but here is some interesting reading.

What Is the Self? It Depends - The New York Times

The Illusion of the Self | Issue 97 | Philosophy Now

It's the "Shelf" with a lisp.

Easy peasy. It's that part of us that thinks in Latin and says things like cogito ergo sum

A dance of the many,

pretending to be the one.

Interesting answers.

And here's a benchmark you can measure from:

a person's essential being that distinguishes them from others, especially considered as the object of introspection or reflexive action.

Lol :) I wanna post a divinals song to answer this question ... But I think I'm gonna be good instead :p EDIT : I changed my mind ... I'm posting song then ... Cos I said so 

It is the culmination of our conscious thoughts and our subconscious thoughts that make up who we are in both cognitive thinking and impulsive behaviors. It is also encompasses out instinctual side passed on through evolution.