You become a completely different person every moment, so the person you are in a spa will be different from the person you are in a garbage dump. "You" and your "environment" are really the same thing in disguise. So of course you have to be yourself in both instances, for how can you not be yourself if you are everything?
The idea that objects exist as objects is patently false if everything is interdependent with the environment to be what it is. Even if my belt looks like the same belt now as it was an hour ago, it is completely different. For instance, it is in a completely different place relative to the sun. If somethings relative position to other things is a part of its identity, then it changes constantly. Instead of being of a world of static objects, it is more a world of dynamic actions. Everything performs the action of its existence, with that action changing constantly. You are not a noun, you are a verb. A dynamic action, not a static object. So whether you are in a dumpster or in a spa, you are you. That you just happens to be a different you depending on which you are in.
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