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Consider the following set of statements:
1) "I am my meat."
2) "I am the unique pattern of information-flow that occurs within my meat."
3) "I am the class of patterns of information-flow that can occur within meat, of which this unique pattern is one example."
4) "I am the class of patterns of information-flow that can occur within any substrate, of which this unique pattern is one example."
5) "I am all the matter and energy in the universe."
What sorts of experiences would constitute evidence for one of them over the others?
It would just be an argument over the definition of "I". Here, tabooing "I" is probably a useful exercise.
OK... what would you replace "I" with, then?