>>11715494Why limit your sense of existence to your conception and death? Physically, the boundary between "you" and "the environment" is at best an approximation, lying somewhere between nuclear epidermis, anuclear epidermis, microbiota, oils, and air. A boundary that is challenged in many organisms and systems, such as conjoined twins, grafted plants, symbiotes, viruses, multicellular microbes, plasmid-using bacteria, etc. A boundary that's constantly shifting, between the hazy, blurry times of its formation and dissolution. Your sense of self exists strictly between your conception and death, but the physical process you consist of by no means begins or ends at those times. It continuously evolved into what you call yourself, and will continue to evolve unfazed after your last breath. Nothing physical is created or lost.
