The Cognitive Scientists are approaching a Buddhist perspective.

"First, it is important to understand the central ontological claim put
forward by the Self Model Theory: No such 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 a model by the
system using it. The dynamic content of the phenomenal self-model
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."

Quote from Précis: Being No One by Thomas Metzinger Johannes
Gutenberg-Universität Mainz