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I didn't say awareness of self was dependent on memory. I asked what would individuate one consciousness from another if not for memories. Being self-aware could not serve as a criterion of individuation between one consciousness and another.

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True, there's really no way of judging this in entities that aren't ourselves. We can't confirm that anyone besides our self is actually conscious. But we can confirm our own consciousness (debatable?) and based on that we can speculate on what it would mean for that consciousness to be transfered.