Is There A Real You?

[Confused Ape]

My memory would be the part of me which was aware of what taking the pill was like.

If I waved my hand so you lost all your memories like K.C., would you stop being aware that you existed?

There's nothing mystical about all this because it's something we take for granted in everyday life. Say you're caught up in being angry about something. All of a sudden you're aware of an emotion which you then attach the label "anger" to. The awareness isn't the emotion or the label you attach to the emotion. It isn't a memory of what it was like to be angry before, either.

So what is this awareness? You can have thoughts about it but it's not the thoughts because you can become aware of having thoughts about it.