Is there an owner behind the experiences, or only the series?
Derek Parfit · Reasons and Persons · 1984
P · Argument, not measurement
Parfit argues for reductionism about personal identity: what exists is a chain of experiences, memories and dispositions, not a further fact of 'me' that owns them. The argument is philosophical, not empirical, but it sets the question the empirical work keeps circling: which of your self-descriptions survive scrutiny?
ProbeDescribe yourself without using any noun that implies a fixed essence. Note what is left.