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I have not yet come to terms with how constructs of personal identity fit in with having or not having a utility function. What if it makes most sense to model my agency as a continuous limit of a series of ever more divided discrete agents who bring subsequent, very similar, future agents into existence? Maybe each of those tiny-in-time-extent agents have a utility function, and maybe that's significant?
I think it makes the most sense to learn a ton of cognitive neuroscience and figure out what that neuroscience suggests about how you should model yourself. Kaj Sotala's mini-sequence about the modular mind seems to be a good place to start.