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VARELA’S THEORY OF THE EMERGENT SELF BASED ON A HEGELIAN–ZIZEKIAN SUBJECT MODEL

Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities Research November 7, 2026 Lintao Fang

Autopoietic enactivism views the self as a diachronic identity that arises from repeated bodily, neural and environmental couplings; however, its account leaves a tension between phenomenal and computational selves. This paper explores whether a Hegelian–Zizekian theory of subjectivity can help resolve this contradiction without reintroducing the idea of an essential soul. By reconstructing the...