Question about an excerpt from the Samyutta Nikaya

So I got the book the Teachings of the Buddha (edited by Jack Kornfield) and I saw this excerpt from the Samyutta Nikaya (translated by David Maurice):

"JUST so, Ananda, in one who contemplates the enjoyment of all things that make for clinging, craving arises; through craving, clinging is conditioned; through clinging, the process of becoming is conditioned; through the process of becoming, rebirth is conditioned; through rebirth are conditioned old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair. Thus arises the whole mass of suffering again in the future."

So what is meant by "the process of becoming"? Is that developing a "self" or "ego"?

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