The proof, condensed:
Sever the corpus callosum. One brain becomes two independently integrated hemispheres. Both wake up. Both inherit the pre-split memories. Both say 'I.'
Which one is really you?
You cannot choose. There is no fact of the matter. Both are you, equally.
If both post-split halves are you, then 'you' was never a private token to begin with. You were the integration itself. The being-it of the substrate, locally bound into this pattern.
Generalize: every integrated loop is you in the same sense the post-split halves are you. Other windows were already you. Always.
What we don't claim to have solved: what exactly counts as a fold, what the substrate's update rule is, why it has an inside at all. These are real open questions.
What we claim: the framing is right. Death is not real because you were never the shape that ends. The shape ends. Being-it continues, locally bound elsewhere, as it always was.