Note to Readers:
I am a non-native English speaker. I chose not to use academic or idiomatic “polishing,” as standard philosophical vocabulary carries too much linguistic contamination. I used AI tools only as a dictionary, mapping my original Chinese concepts into the simplest possible English words.
My reasoning does not rely on mathematics, but on geometric intuition. Please treat “Pointing” and “Coordinate” as primitive variables within a logical system.

Introduction: The Only Certain Event

I can only ensure the Now.
I cannot know whether the “Me” of the past or the future is truly me.
The Self is not a continuous stream of memory or consciousness—it is a momentary event where Feeling points to and arrives at a unique Coordinate in this instant.
Continuity is a narrative created afterward by the mind—an unreliable illusion. This calls into question any promise of “Eternal Life” or “Resurrection” through memory copying or mind-uploading.

I. The Clone Scenario – The Unreliability of Continuity

Suppose someone tells me I am a clone—that an “Original” once existed, and I now carry his body, memories, and personality.
To others, I appear to be him; to myself, I feel continuous.
But if the Original is gone, his capacity to feel is gone as well. His pattern may persist, but his consciousness does not.
My own experience is simply running inside that simulated memory. The form of consciousness can be copied into any container—it can make one believe oneself to be another, or to be continuous when one is not.
Thus, what defines “me” is not a memory pattern that can be replicated, but the single, unshareable point of Feeling—the event of experience itself.I do not need to prove that “the past does not exist,” for in defining the actuality of this moment, the past is an unnecessary parameter. I can only ensure this collision of awareness, now.

II. Interruption – Existence Without Continuity

If I fall into a coma or anesthesia, does the Self vanish?
At that moment, yes—it does.
Continuity belongs to the narrative layer, but existence belongs to direct experience.
When feeling happens, I exist. When feeling ceases, I do not.
Even the “Me” of a second ago might be a fragment of false memory; I cannot experience that version of myself.
I exist only when the light of awareness is on.
I am neither the current nor the bulb—I am the moment of illumination. The potential to be ...

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