A further point about the self. It may be a convenient illusion to think of ourselves in the singular but in truth we are many. we are only partly human cells. Thousands of millions of bacteria outnumber the human cells. Parts of us are left everywhere we go, parts exchanged when we kiss or shake hands. The bio flora isa quagmire of different life forms, breeding and dieing around us. Picture a childhood memory. Christmas or holidays. No part of you that is here now was there then. If you are my age and committed a crime in your early twenties, there is no particle of you left, attached to or living on you, that was there then and could in any real way be heald accountable.  Rather than thinking of ourselves as solid, fixed, physical beings, it may be more accurate to think of a wave, travelling through the various human cells and bacterial particles. A swarm of living micro organisms carrying, temporarily the energy, as a patch of sea holds the wave, but briefly, before it passes.