Originally Posted by grant hutchison

This is an aspect of selfhood which is rather different from the sense of being a continuously existing consciousness: it relates to ownership of one's own body, rather than continuity of conscious existence. It is possible to have one without the other. There are, for instance, people who deny that their own limbs are their own: a patient may be frightened to discover a left arm attached to his body which he does not recognize as being his own, for instance. And yet that person will be aware of his own continuous existence as a person, in continuity before and after the stroke that has led to his current predicament.