The hierarchy of activations: where is the self located?

I agree with Nietzsche in not wanting to locate the self in the ego. I also don't want to locate the primary goal of life in survival and reproductive success, or in happiness, vital as they are. These things are located within a hierarchy of activation in the same way that pleasure from eating food is not the goal but the means to survival, and as survival is not the end-goal but the means to evolve further toward the zenith of survival and reproductive success, which is Godhood.

The self or executive function therefore seems to be located in the material activation to supermaterial Godhood. That sacred material activation (Tirips) then survives within the give and take of outside natural selection and evolution.

This hierarchy of functions is then integrated in healthy individuals and societies. Action leads contemplation in this hierarchy of activations, not the other way around. And the self is not the non-material spiritual goal of the religious/philosophical ascetics.