Experience as a flux of qualia, while qualia are 'what it's like...' - no, because if you want to speak of qualia these are precisely what cannot be 'like' anything at all, the notion doesn't apply: in being experienced they are absolutely unique because absolutely particular. Experience is absolute particularity, exactly this incomparable. You can seek to get behind appearances by inquiring as to what 'gives' experience, what gives this life you are living, anything and everything is possible, but that you are living it is absolute particularity. This is the only meaning of identity and yet it has nothing to do with anything that characterises identity, as if it is pure and unconditioned choice. It is identity without being identical to anything. You cannot ask if identity now is the same as identity then, it doesn't exist that it could be put side by side with any other instance. Existence doesn't exist, and you are that.