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Probems in defining Identity

If I replace my entire body each functional unit at a time, at no point I become someone else. In this type of argument it seems like memory and its continuation is what gives me my unique self identity,

But what happens if there are two persons with the exact same memory. (Remember these are thought experiments so it is valid to assume such identical memory is possible to be instantiated and maintainable for a given amount of time.). Does that mean now I will be conscious in two bodies? Certainly we can't feel using a remote body. And what I can't feel is not me. And following this sense, what defines me is not memory but my body - which is a contradiction.

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Most of them are draining me most of the time.

The negative effects of communicating with them is outweighing the benefits I am drawing from these communications.

I have hardly had any conceptual help from them anyway.

So I will just stop communicating for now.

Today will mark the beginning of that.

Already feeling relieved. Strange.

I am alone. But that's all I need. It's better to explore alone than drag with yourself a load that doesn't really help much.

Conscious Identity

Technically there is no single I throughout any span of time. Every moment my (in the traditional sense) memory is changing. And identity of self is nothing but the set of memories one (in the traditional sense) possesses.

That means, I am coming in and out of being continuously. It is the relay of memories from one moment to the next that gives my brain the sense of a coherent identity.

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