The Onto-Rhythmic Self: An Ontological Reframing of Subjectivity
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science October 1, 2025 Mohammad Dawood Rahimi
A novel concept of selfhood, the Onto-Rhythmic Self, is introduced, grounded in a participatory ontology where Consciousness and Time are expressive modalities of Being rather than substrates. By critiquing Husserl's transcendental ego and Dennett's narrative self across four axes—Who, How, What, Why—the authors argue that both synthesis and simulation fail to capture selfhood. Instead, the self is a modulatory field of Being, a dynamic site of rhythm, resonance, and relational articulation. This self is neither transcendental nor computational but an ontological inscription manifesting across neural, cultural, ecological, and quantum strata. Implications reframe individuation as ontic emergence, therapy as rhythmic re-attunement, and art as ontological modulation.