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What remains the same when a system becomes something else? How do we know who “we”, as a society, are? Although such questions are typically considered hopelessly philosophical by those crunching numbers, in sustainability science, they must be meticulously answered in order to generate meaningful and responsible quantifications. When dealing with complexity, one only measures what one first defines as relevant and one only defines as relevant what one feels is deeply related to one’s own identity, passion