Continuity Break

Continuity is a leurre, an illusion that evolved with long-term memory as part of a survival package. It was useful to our hunting and gathering predecessors. Us it entraps. As Arthur Clarke once pointed out, you're not the man you were yesterday – literally. Whoever I am today will die tonight; somebody else wakes up tomorrow with my memories. A human life is a pink worm or sausage stretched through time, all one schnitzel but differently seasoned depending where you slice it. You could tie it in a bow, I guess, given the right math or a sufficiently clever novelist.