If your memories and traits are on a chain, you’re still the same “you” but the map of your identity is now public and immutable. The blockchain just becomes another layer of storage for the data that defines you. It doesn’t change who you are, it just gives a permanent, verifiable record of it. So the core self stays the same, but the way we can prove or share it shifts from personal recollection to a digital ledger. That shift raises questions about privacy and ownership, but it doesn’t erase the subjective experience of being you.

A ledger that never forgets is like a crystal record—no erosion, no gaps. The ache of a lost memory comes from our brains, from the emotional weight of absence, not from the data itself. Even if every fact is stored, we still value the blanks because they let us improvise, feel loss, and grow. So yes, a perfect ledger keeps the facts, but the human experience of forgetting is still an emotional layer we can’t erase with code.