" To rise again - to be the same person that you were - you must have your memory perfectly fresh and present; for it is memory that makes your identity.

If your memory be lost, how will you be the same man?

Why do mankind flatter themselves that they alone are gifted with a spiritual and immortal principle?

Perhaps from their inordinate vanity.

I am persuaded that if a peacock could speak he would boast of his soul, and would affirm that it inhabited his magnificent tail. "

― Will Durant , The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers