Identity as Charge: Defining Lived Duration and Falsifiable Trauma Resolution via Active Emotional Signal

This paper proposes a novel framework of personal identity, defining the self not as a fixed archive of history, but as an active aggregate of emotionally live signals. Drawing on the elasticity of lived duration and memory reconsolidation, we argue that the unit of identity is the lifespan of emotional charge. Furthermore, we challenge the clinical consensus that trauma resolution asymptotes above zero impact, presenting evidence that absolute zero is a reachable and falsifiable endpoint, and analyzing the systematic biases that render this resolved population invisible to clinical study.