The main question of the OP is the typical 'Who Am I?"Socrateaze wrote:If the body, as the op suggests, does not belong to us, is that not mystical in itself? When is something day-to-day things and when is something not a day-to-day thing, that seems to be the question here. If my body is a day-to-day thing, it is ordinary, not extraordinary and it belongs to me; if it does not belong to me it is a mystical notion. Do you agree?
"if it does not belong to me it is a mystical notion."
It is only a mystical notion if "me" [the self] is taken to be an entity that is independent of the external world and survives physical death.
Note Hume and many others [e.g. Kant, Eastern philosophies] has argued the self do not exists independently.
If the self is viewed as a psychological entity, i.e. an emergent self, then there is no issue when we view the "me" as owner of the empirical physical body and mental mind.
There are many perspectives to view the "I" in their relevant context and they are relatively true as long the "I" is not regarded an entity that is independent of the external world and survives physical death.