Are you your memories?
Your memories are a large part of you, and they are not all of you. In OPH an observer is a finite pattern made of the questions it can ask, the records it keeps, the ports through which it reads and writes, and a state fixing its odds on what comes next. Records are part of the present. Two histories can end in the same configuration and still require different futures, so any description that leaves out the records fails once someone intervenes on them. OPH's executable observer picks its next repair from its kept record alone. With that link in place the average final load at one port is 35/264, and with the selector disconnected it is 1/6. Records copy cleanly, so observer data can be separated from a body and copied into a new environment. A restored person needs the records together with the questions, ports and state that use them.
Also in Epilogue: The Last Rung, Chapter 40: Does It Feel Like Anything, and What Is Left to Decide?.
This answer comes from OPH, Observer Patch Holography. OPH is a rigorous, consistent and complete description of the unified, self-creating computational Universe we inhabit. Its consistency is machine-checked: the fixed point at its core is constructed explicitly, and a theory with a model contains no contradiction.
To understand OPH and check every step yourself, start with the free book Reverse Engineering Reality. It builds the theory from the ground up, and the OPH Notebook answers your questions while you read.
read the free bookask the notebookor ask sage:read chapter 13: What Is One Piece of Reality Actually Made Of?watch a universe make its own particles