The problem here is that you are trying to convince us that a sailboat has its own identity, like a human being does.

Is the sailboat its own real entity, or is it just a collection of wooden planks and cloth sails? Another example would be: Does Water exist? Or is it just an abstraction we've created in our minds to identify a collection of H2O molecules.

Obviously you can stretch this concept out ad infinitum, but you get my point.

Now what you could potentially derive from this, is do WE really exist? Or are our brains just a collection of neurons and chemicals reacting according to the laws of physics, unable to truly make its own choices any more than an electronic computer?