Where does the list of what counts as me stop: my skin / my belongings / the people I am responsible for?

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Every outline of the self leaves out the accent you did not choose and the habits nobody picked Search results and abandoned forum accounts are now part of the inventory and no framework has a slot for them Is your reputation part of you or only part of what happens to you? William James split the self into material and social and spiritual parts and every outline written since has copied the triad Is your body an item on the inventory of you or a piece of equipment you maintain? A prosthesis stops being equipment the moment it becomes part of how you move A list of parts that cannot say what to do when body and memory and role disagree is not yet an account of a person Is the self a substance or a bundle or a process or a story and has any fifth option ever held? Roles are the easiest item to add to a list of the self and the hardest to remove If the self is only a story what exactly is a court punishing when it punishes a person?