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Not technically...
Cutting edge (and relatively proven) theory is:
"You" is the quantum superposition that exists inside connected microtubules.
That's why for anesthesia or just getting knocked unconscious, you don't need to remove the brain, you just do something to break up the connection of microtubules and boom: the person is unconscious but their brain is still functioning which keeps the body alive. Eventually the microtubules reassemble and you're able to be conscious again.
The brain is just another organ the "you" manipulates to interact with your surroundings.
It's also the only way we could actually have free will.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12060853/
For bonus 80s coolness tho, it would mean that what is "us", is a laser zooming around an incredibly tiny race track in our brains.
Quick edit:
Microtubules are basically biological nanites too, they're in every cell of the body and to give you an ideal of their size, they're what pulls DNA apart during cell replication. So these incredibly tiny little buggers link up to basically form a fiber optic cable which is how we can have quantum superposition in warm/wet environment like the brain.
Which if you know anything about how hard it is to sustain quantum superposition, well, anywhere, it explains why it considered a crazy theory for decades till we actually observed it just a couple years ago.
Holy shit that's nanners. And this has been observed? I gotta read that paper.
Microtubules are structural and exist throughout the whole body, not just in the brain. They are part of the scaffolding of cells. If you broke them up, you'd die, because your cells would fall apart. They also have not much to do with the actual information processing in the brain, as again their role is strictly structural.