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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." -- Woody Allen
But I don't think torekp is "just saying the problem goes away if you redefine the terms". Rather, that the problem only appears when you define your terms badly or don't understand the definitions you're using. Or, perhaps, that the problem is about how you define your terms. In that situation, finding helpful redefinitions is pretty much the best you can do.
"The problem is about how you define your terms" is pretty much it. It does no good to insist that our words must have clear reference in cases utterly outside of their historical use patterns. No matter how important to you the corresponding concept may be.
I have seen no evidence of that so far. torekp's posts so far have had nothing to do with the definition of "self" used by the OP, nor has he pointed out any problem specific to that usage.