But events conspired to combine particular bits of meat in particular ways, and those events could have conspired differently—and in each universe that they did so, there is another possible ‘you’.
And I would identify less with them to the extent that their memories/histories differ.
And I would identify less with them to the extent that their memories/histories differ.
Nevertheless, the “superstimulus” version of #2 might tempt me if it didn’t seem like a guaranteed failure in practice.