Похоже на идеи немецкого философа Томаса Метцингера, который пишет:
First, it is important to understand the central ontological claim put forward by SMT:
Nosuch things as selves exist in the world. For all scientific and philosophical purposes,
the notion of a self – as a theoretical entity – can be safely eliminated. What we have
been calling "the" self in the past is not a substance, an unchangeable essence or a thing
(i.e., an "individual" in the sense of philosophical metaphysics), but a very special kind of
representational content:
The content of a self-model that cannot be recognized as amodel by the system using it. The dynamic content of the
phenomenal self-model(hereafter: ”PSM”, cf. BNO, Chapter 6) is the content of the conscious self: Your current
bodily sensations, your present emotional situation plus all the contents of your
phenomenally experienced cognitive processing. They are constituents of your PSM. All
those properties of your experiential self, to which you can now direct your attention,
form the content of your current PSM. This PSM is not a thing, but an integrated process.
Intuitively, and in a certain metaphorical sense, one could say that you are the
content of your PSM. A perhaps better way of making the central point intuitively
accessible could be by saying that we are systems that constantly confuse themselves with
the content of their PSM. At least for all conscious beings so far known to us it is true
that they neither have nor are a self. Biological organisms exist, but an organism is not a
self. Some organisms possess conscious self-models, but
such self-models certainly arenot selves – they are only complex brain states. However, if an organism operates under a
transparent self-model, then it possesses a phenomenal self. The phenomenal property of
selfhood as such is a representational construct: an internal and dynamic representation of
the organism as a whole to which the transparency constraint applies. It truly is a
phenomenal property in terms of being an appearance only. The phenomenal experience
of substantiality (i.e., of being an independent entity that could in principle exist all by
itself), of having an essence (i.e., of being defined by possessing an unchangeable
innermost core, an invariant set of intrinsic properties) and of individuality (i.e., of being
an entity that is unique and indivisible) are special forms of conscious, representational
content as well. Possessing this content on the level of phenomenal experience was
evolutionary advantageous, but as such (i.e., as phenomenal content) it is not
epistemically justified.
This position is clearly counter-intuitive: For human beings, during the ongoing
process of conscious experience characterizing their waking and dreaming life, a self is
present. Human beings consciously experience themselves as being someone. The
problem for the present theory thus is to explain how one’s own personal identity
appears in conscious experience: What is needed to—by conceptual necessity—take the
step from the representational property of self-modeling to the consciously experienced
phenomenal property of selfhood?
Кратко с его идеями, изложенными в книге
Being No One, можно ознакомиться
тут (англ.).