Effective January 1, 2017, at this link are found papers that come under the general heading: What is the self? The word self is used as the inclusive term for: human body, person, individual, human being, mind, I think, thought, conscious being in the singular, Being-in-the-world, a continuum of conscious experiences, and the like. If one goes to the being of a self as substance, one enters such fields as biology, physiology, neurology, and psychiatry. If one goes to the being of a self as essence, one enters such fields as psychology, existentialism, introspection, identity theory, and behavioral theory, to name a few.