Free Will, Decision making and religion

[Ignorant]

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Well you can certainly say that, but then what you mean by the "self" is something that is never identifiable. The moment you "identify" the "self" it has already changed into something else entirely.

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The adjective "entirely" is, in my opinion, inapt. Change in a person does happen from moment to moment, but the change that happens each moment does not change to the entire personality or sense of selfhood, in my experience. Given enough time, you may, or may not, see a change so general as to be labeled "entire."

-emphasis mine

Well, that is the problem then, isn't it? Which is it? If there is "ever" a change so general so as to be labeled "entire", then you are no longer "yourself", but some other thing. However, if there is never a change so general so as to be labeled "entire", then what has remained unchanged? What is it? Can it ever change? Etc.

As a result, a person's selfhood is indeed identifiable, based on things like their views or outlooks, I think.

Views and outlooks change too. Mine certainly have. Some "thing" must be doing the "viewing" or "outlooking". If there is no thing "doing" the things which occur related to humans (which is the position of the OP and the deterministic evolutionary position), then "viewing" and "outlooking" are really no different than wind erosion, stars exploding, digestion, and the aurora borealis effect. The sense or "feeling" that it is YOU who "does" anything is, according to that position, merely an illusion.