The Character Who Began to Reason: A Didactic Introduction to the Architecture of the Self, Conscious Action, and Reason

This text explains, through a brief and accessible account, how a human organism constructs during development a biographical entity referring to itself; how that entity comes to operate as the referent of actions, giving rise to the functional emergence of what is commonly called the Self; and how Reason develops when the Self begins to carry out actions by means of language.