In Buddhist philosophy, anatta (Pāli) or anātman (Sanskrit) refers to the "non-self" or "absence of separate self". One scholar describes it as "meaning non-selfhood, the absence of limiting self-identity in people and things." Its opposite is Atta (Pāli) or ātman (Sanskrit), the idea of a subjective Soul or Self which survives rebirth and which the Buddha explicitly rejects. What is normally thought of as the "self" is in fact an agglomeration of constantly changing… (
More on Anatman)