My view on person/identity-stuff is that, we are not our memories nor our body, we are just perceiving those. The clue is in the language: it's YOUR body, YOUR opinions, YOUR memories, YOUR identity. Those are things you are HAVING, not being. Just like your coffeemaker, you HAVE a coffeemaker but you ARE NOT the coffeemaker (probably..?) same goes for your identity, memories, physical body, opinions, thoughts (your thoughts about yourself too) and all that stuff. We are not anything we can perceive, we are the perceiver, we can't perceive ourselves, because we are the perceiving of everything, there's nothing else to us than perceiving, and by doing that we are ourselves. Much like a fire can't burn itself, a knife can't cut itself, light can't illuminate itself. (Thanks, Alan, for that)
To me my body is something that I control, not something that I am, it's like an operating system for the physical world, a vehicle for travelling through life. It's an interactive operating system, i.e. it gives you warning signals (pain) when you do something detrimental to your body. Pain and other sensations are like the warning and other lights on the dashboard of a car, sure you can ignore them, but they are there for a reason.
Anyway that's my take on this.
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