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Originally Posted by Joe Durnavich View Post
What criteria tells us this "sense of self" is intact?
We ask that "self" if it feels intact.
If the answer is "yes", the conclusion is that the "sense of self" is intact.

Note that this doesn't mean the "self" is identical to the one before the operation, just that it feels itself(pun unavoidable) to be, which is really all the "sense of self" is.
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