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Try this thought experiment. I've adapted it from one of Richard Rose's lectures.
Say you are to be guillotined at the neck. Imagine this happening. Imagine you can somehow stay conscious afterwards. Has your head been cut off or your body?
If your head has been cut off, perhaps your sense of self is in the body. Now imagine the arms and legs being sliced off. Not too hard, the 'I' still remains, meaning that the self is somewhere in the trunk.
Now imagine the trunk being cut in half horizontally, dividing the thorax from the abdomen. Is your abdomen cut away or your thorax. For me, I'm still in the thorax, around the heart area... and I'm slightly more towards the left, so maybe the heart itself or the heart chakra.
Where are you? If you'd asked me the question before this experiment, I would have guessed the self is in my head somewhere.
Here is a shortcut :- In a life-threatening situtation would you mind going for a kidney transplant ? a heart transplant ? a lung trasnplant ? I think anyone can.
BUT a brain transplant ?? lol