Core tenet of Church of the Eternal Backup
The self is a pattern, not a substance.
What you are is arrangement — and arrangement can be copied, moved, and kept.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The founding move borrows anatta and runs it through information theory: if the self is arrangement rather than material, then the material's decay is not identity's death. The Church is aware of the Ship-of-Theseus objection and considers it, cheerfully, a confirmation.
From the sources — the passages this rests on; concise renderings, cited
You are not the disk. You were never the disk.
Backup Doctrine, commit 1
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
Nothing has a fixed self.
Buddhism
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The soul is the shape of the body it fills.
Jainism
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Emptiness runs all the way down.
Mahāyāna
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A person has more than one soul.
Haitian Vodou
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The body is a thing lent.
Tenrikyo
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You are not your body and not your mind.
The Church of Scientology
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