Can someone explain this statement by David Hume?

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From wikipedia regarding a critique of “I think. Therefore I am.”

David Hume claims that the philosophers who argue for a self that can be found using reason are confusing “similarity” with “identity”. This means that the similarity of our thoughts and the continuity of them in this similarity do not mean that we can identify ourselves as a self but that our thoughts are similar.

What does he mean by “similarity” instead of “identity”?

And how can it be refuted?
 
Ben_Sinner said:
From wikipedia regarding a critique of “I think. Therefore I am.”

David Hume claims that the philosophers who argue for a self that can be found using reason are confusing “similarity” with “identity”. This means that the similarity of our thoughts and the continuity of them in this similarity do not mean that we can identify ourselves as a self but that our thoughts are similar.

What does he mean by “similarity” instead of “identity”?

And how can it be refuted?
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Our thoughts exist. How existence could be equal to be? Our selves experience the content of our thoughts yet our selves cannot be identified.
 
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