Does a "True Self" Exist?

[robvalue]

I think the nearest I can get to describing the "true self" would be with the cloning thought experiment. It would require alternate realities where at some point a decision is made which sets me on different paths in different realities. By the "multiverse" idea that all possibilities are played out somehow in other realities, it would just be a matter of following "my path" from the point of my birth in all the different branches. (Obviously this would be a ludicrous amount of data!)

What, if anything, would we see as common traits regarding "me"? Is there anything that survives all these different branches and scenarios?

I conclude that the DNA would be the only thing in common between them all. I feel confident that any other attribute would not consistently survive "multiversing", at either a zoomed in or zoomed out level.