I've long held that my conscious mind is an action of this moment. I'm just a memory machine processing all these external stimuli using my experienced memory as a guide or reference to produce the phenomenon of identity. Probably to allow me to act autonomously without the need for an external stimuli to provoke action.
Example: I remember I like to go for walks. Like a food, like an activity like smoking.
https://neurosciencenews.com/consciousness-dualism-neuroscience-26091/
The real magic is what happens when we forget. What happens when a memory becomes a problem?
Becoming allergic to a favorite food?
Neurological degenerative conditions that make that person disappear. Some coming back for brief moments.
Memory and the influence it has over us is the key to who you are. The amalgamation of how these memories are stored over the course of your life to produce this moment of who you are. Then it's a memory and no longer who you are at this moment.