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the paperwork version of proving you exist.
means the process or documents that prove a person or thing is who or what it claims to be.
from from latin idem, meaning same, plus facere, to make — literally to make the same, i.e. to match a person to a fixed record of themselves.
oldest formseals and signatures predate photo id by millennia
psychology sensealso means unconsciously modeling yourself on someone else
biometric shiftfingerprints and faces replaced paper as the id itself