system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If your parents never met, would you still exist?

• if my father/mother married different people and had a kid would that kid be "me"?

• What makes "me"?

• what is self?




edit: I'd love if you can point me to some frontier work on this.
articles, studies or any other outlook.
gpt
In metaphysics, what makes *X* *X* is generally called the essence of *X*. That is, what makes you y*ou* is your essence, whatever it may be. 

According to the position known as origin essentialism, your origin (partially) constitutes your essence. Since your parents (partially) count as your origin, you won't exist in case your parents do not have any mutual child. Saul Kripke's *Naming and Necessity* is known to have articulated origin essentialism.