[lisper]

> a condition for OP’s question

that being:

> If we remove our "selves" from our bodies, are we still us?

But answering this is now a straightforward thought experiment. You just approach it incrementally.

If you replace your limbs with prosthetics, are you still you?

If you get a heart-lung transplant, are you still you?

If you get an artificial heart, are you still you?

etc.

> a somehow unique, identifiable self which ... is how most people view themselves

Well, yeah, but that's a limit of our present technology, not necessarily a fundamental aspect of what it means to be human. Technology redefines the answer to that question all the time.