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The concept of the specific body as used in awaretheory means the same physical person over time. The human body is constantly changing in many different ways over time. Because the body is constantly changing over time there is no specific material you. Your body exists over time, space, and is was and will be a large grouping of matter. Your body utilizes on the average at least five lb. of new matter each day. That is approximately a ton a year. That is between 50 an 100 tons for an average life time. Even the material in the bones is replaced. At the end of your life time you are not the same material person that you were at the beginning of your life time. The matter that has produced your consciousness could go on to produce many other peoples consciousness. Matter is interchangeable for producing consciousness and ixperiencitness. The consciousness that is being produced by a human body is always changing also. Since you are not a specific grouping of matter nor a specific consciousness what makes you unique? Maybe you are not unique? The same ixperiencitness is spread over at least part of your bodies life time. Ixperiencitness is not tied to a specific body. Ixperiencitness is tied to the structure and functioning of a body, but since other bodies can have the same structure, and function in the same ways as any original or your body, they can have (at least in theory) the same ixperiencitness. At the very least different bodies can have approximately the same ixperiencitness when there is approximately the same (or close enough) structure and functioning.