Survival of the self through time

"Survival of the self through time" is a concept based on three other concepts survival, the self, and time. Conscious beings (humans) believe that they exist for more than a conscious moment because they remember events that have happened to them in the past. Their consciousness organized these events often in a chronological order so that it appears that these events were experienced over a period of time. There is a difference between an actual event and the belief that a conscious event occurred. Actual survival into the past is more than just the belief that that you were alive and conscious in the past. If there was created a cidentireplica of your present body at this moment he would produce the behavior that you will produce. He will have the memories that you have. He will believe like you do that he existed in the past and actually experienced what your body experienced, but his body will not have experienced these conscious events even though he has memories of these conscious events. Did he experience these events or not? He believes that he did experience these conscious events. He has the exact same memories of these events as you do as long as he has the same structure and functioning in his body as you do. If his structure and functioning changes from that of yours he may remember conscious events that actually happened to your body that you do not remember.

There is another way to explain this situation rather than saying you are your body, we can define your current self as the structure and functioning of the body not the body itself.