The self is a way of reconstructing the structural features of the world within representational contexts that reflect the roles of differentiation and their combinations with each other.
There is not one structural feature that differentiates the self, but multiple, and the primacy of the features will depend on the situation represented.
Again, this is not to say that the self is constitutionally functionalist, as the structural features remain the underlying foundational reference parameters within which the representational construct of the self is built, and which secures its identity.
Of course, the claim is made that these are pragmatic, not essential. But this is a feature of the world, not of thought.
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