/lit/ - Literature

>>6832302
More or less is not definite.
From one moment to the next you are two different people because the organical components differ in substance and arrangement. Technically, the you and the you of the next hour are not the same being, and very much less the one you in a year or ten, where it's much more visible.
Even if it is less than one percent difference it is still difference.
You not think the same, or behave, react -- like a different person.

As you say, various parts are an extension of you, but none of them are inherent characteristics, they change, your interaction changes them for you and it you.
Your personality, say, is just your current being, it's not a stagnant component subject to change but a fluid biological and environmental subject that morphes as the external and internal data affect you. As silly as it may sound; your personality is just a state of being which is influenced by your actual inherent biological alternations.

Your self is influenced by past and present and even future considerations but this alone can not make it a continual (in the sense that it is the same) existence.

And we don't have souls, that is silly! Unless you define it as the constantly changing self that gives you the impressions all through your life of you. But that's a semantical snare, there certainly isn't any such thing as a soul in the biblical sense, at least one we can prove.