I’m inclined to bite this bullet too, though it feels somewhat strange. Weird implication: you can increase the amount of reality-fluid assigned to you by giving yourself amnesia.
I think that yes, the sameness of humans as agents is generated by the process of self-identification in which a human being is identifies herself through a short string of information “Name, age, sex, profession + few more kilobytes”. Evidence for this is the success of improv theatre, where people quickly adopt completely new roles through one-line instructions.
If yes, then we should expect ourselves to be agents that exist in a universe that abstracts well, because “high-level agents” embedded in such universes are “supported” by a larger equivalence class of universes (since they draw on reality fluid from an entire pool of “low-level” agents).
I explored a similar line of reasoning here: Magic by forgetting
I think that yes, the sameness of humans as agents is generated by the process of self-identification in which a human being is identifies herself through a short string of information “Name, age, sex, profession + few more kilobytes”. Evidence for this is the success of improv theatre, where people quickly adopt completely new roles through one-line instructions.
I think that your conclusion is valid.