Asking questions like “is there a self?”, or “is there no self?” or “is there both self and no self?” or “is there neither self nor no self?” Are wrong questions to ask. Rather the Buddha said that the right question is to ask that “why do I feel a self?”. If you see a car, you can feel that there is a car, but if I ask you to touch the car , you won’t be able to. If you touch the frame then it’s steel not car, if you touch the Windows then it’s glass not car. You can touch those individual parts that make up a car, but never a car. So is there a car or not? Again wrong question. Ask why do I feel that there is a car? Answer is because all those causes have been arranged in a manner that match your perception of a car. If you take those individual parts and arrange them differently, you will feel that the “Car” has been disfigured, but only the arrangement has changed. It’s the mind’s nature to feel entities and not manifestations. Feeling a “Car” causes all of this mess, there is just manifestation of a Car(effect)as long as the individual parts(causes) are arranged in the “right order”(condition). Mind is just a process which only interacts with its environment, but due to its inbuilt “fault” it experiences a Self . If you have read what Rupa,Vedana,Sañña, Sankhara and Viññaña in a mental process is ,then it would be easier to grasp this. These are just steps of recognition and perception, that’s all.