What is Buddhism's conception of a person?

I've been learning about Buddhism and started thinking about one of its assertions: the fact that souls do not exist.

I looked up the definition of a soul so that I can understand what this truly means, and I saw that a soul is the immaterial, non-physical aspect of a person.

That means that a person's thoughts, values, sense of humor, etc. are all part of his soul.

Now, if people don't have souls, or in other words, there is no non-physical part of a person, then that logically means a person only consists of the physical.

As I understand, the illusion of self or of having a soul is created by attachment to non-permanent things, and ceases once you achieve Nirvana.

So, what is a person really, in Buddhist thought? To me, they seem more like... things, as opposed to human beings. Things that walk around as if they have a blindfold on and mistakenly thinking the idea of themselves exists in reality as they crave different types of things and suffering because of it all the while. Then if they achieve enlightenment, they realize who they thought they were was just an illusion, which means what they are is simply a physical body, right?

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