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The person is a phantom

 The "I am" (Atman), that which gives me presence or identity in the here and now, is not one of the social persons that acts using my psychological memory, a memory that is linked to my body. A person is an identity narrative, that is, a group communication function that organically structures the identity of a group from pseudo-individual entities, whose uniqueness (their "being-unique") is a mental mirage. Our emotional systems have a group function (the basic emotions of anger and fear not only have a group dimension), so it makes sense to say that emotional systems are more active in group actions than individual ones, and that is why ego focus is developed and strengthened in group emotional communication. It is in this context of the unit of communicative action in which an egoic function has vital advantages since it allows the formation of more complex organic structures from simpler individual structures that are linked together through the communication of emotions, integrating strategies of different fields of life experience. The ego as the engine of social action (from the legal dimension reached by Roman law, but above all, from the legal dimension reached in the narrative of the identity of the rights of the human being) is the condition of possibility of the complexity of contemporary society.

The ego seems to have its origin in the integrated action of the basic emotional responses, developing later in the communicative processes of such responses progressively. Among animals, communications are sequences of basic emotions, which affirmatively regulate behavior by stabilizing the individual organism within a group, generating at the same time an individual and group identity. Emotions provided the basic lexicon for the construction of behavioral protocols that are communicated for homeostatic purposes within a group, while regulating the individual homeostatic balance around the ego's index memory, as a reaffirmation of successful survival memories. . In terms of the group, the emotional protocols provide the common memory, determining something like a collective ego that is acted upon in emotional relationships and indexed in terms of individual experiences. But, however sophisticated these relationships become, they are grounded in the phantasmagoria of the ego, and they are unstable, at the mercy of the most basic animal emotions on which they are grounded. 


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