I find this thread interesting to read and ponder although I have *no* understanding of it at all.

I do have one tangential thought to interject; I used to put it this way: There is no use wishing I had never been born because if the 'I' that I am had not been born, I would have born as someone else and therefore would still have been 'I'.

And that's all I have to say about *I*. :)