Hazel

Ultimately yes, I don’t adhere to an essentialist view of identity though, identity is just a unique arrangement of matter.

Which also means that a ship-of-Theseus doesn’t maintain its identity, yes. Even more, I personally don’t think identity is anything but a consistent narrative and there’s no material identity. One doesn’t need to rearrange anything but just wait a bit and your body is no longer the body it was a second ago :)

Ultimately sure, but it’s partially (epi)genetic at least so not just your own experiences, but derived from all that has come before. You’re not some pure, objective observer in the sense of some kind of non-identity I don’t think.

I’d say ‘you’ is like a filter. If two people had the same experiences they’d differ in how those experiences affect them, who you are is how you filter the world. But yeah without external things there’d be nothing, so ‘you’ on its own has no content.

We yearn for the Miness.

Not pink monster?