How can one be expected to take responsibility for oneself if there is no self to take on that responsibility?

I have recently been reading quite a bit about buddhism and am struggling with how the idea of not-self would interact with taking responsibility for ones actions. My basic understanding of not-self is that we do not have control over the various domains of our mind that come to the fore during experiences of different emotions. If our state of mind, or the way we think is impermanent and based off our experience of emotions, surely we are somewhat defined by impulsive actions that are out of our control, actions that natural selection has forced us towards, and so how can we be expected to take responsibility for those actions that arise as a result of our evolution and are not under the control of the self?

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Essentially, if there is no self because the self does not hold power over our decisions, how can the actions we take be attributed to a self that should hold responsibility and change accordingly?

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