Free Will, Decision making and religion

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In reference to the proposed description of reality in the first post on this thread. Assuming reality is truly as the first post describes, then I think it would follow that identity is illusory, even if the apparent experience of identity actually occurs.

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OK, got it. Though I have a hard time understanding how the experience of being a self could be deluding itself regarding itself.

So do I! But if there is no "thing" (e.g. Descartes's soul, some metaphysical unity, whatever) which remains "itself" under one aspect while changing in other aspects, then there can be no "self" understood as we commonly understand it.

We experience that we have a continuous identity, but if there is nothing actually continuous about what we are (which, according to the worldview of the first post, seems to be the case), then there is no actual "I". It is merely the illusion of continuity.

It is its own, identical to itself, frame of reference. What would it be "actually" in the OP? An emergent property of some other system?

I have no idea what "it" would be. According to physical determinism (or other similar models), what is the identifying continuity (if any) in a bacterium?

Problems of solipsism & inference, as far as I know, have no firm solutions.
So we ignore them and act as if there was a reality and that tomorrow will follow on similar to today. We really have no other well defended choice. Only occasionally do we consciously recognize that this is the situation.

Am I the only person who finds that strange?