This new woman’s body, you might object, is not Stella’s, or rather: her DNA is not the DNA that Stella was born with. No. It is not—but if Stella were to be treated for a genetic disease with a modern treatment that changed her DNA, would I say she was no longer herself? No. The code is not the woman. It is the mind that makes the self, albeit made in the flesh. All right, then: how is Genetic Medicine Stella different from Evil Megalos Stella? Well, there would be a chain of consequence leading from that body to this one, a transitional liminality or gradient by which Stella at time t might identifiably become Stella at t + 1, t + 2, t + 3 and so on, until the transition is complete and the DNA at t is nothing like the DNA at t + n , but the chain of transformation is clear. The woman from the past would become the woman in the present.