[JakeBarkings]

Even a micro-organism like a bacteria cell has that instinct.

Hi Deshy,

I think a bacteria just reacts in accordance to the environment conditions... a bacteria is not aware of them. It is not trying to survive, it just reacts in accordance to its genetic arrange of chemical reactions. I mean, the bacteria do not know they are surviving. At least it is just my guess.

About how a self prevails I will adventure a hypothesis...

Due that the brain is working even when a coma has come... it is still reacting to sensory stimulation... awake or in dream state the brain works with "learnt path" synapses that are the building blocks of recalling or memory. As a hypothesis... I think that fabrications have to do with this property of the brain. Learnt path sinapse never rest until death... so the sense of self will be reestablished at every time.