Free Will, Decision making and religion

[Angrboda]

The self is just an invisible database of values about our current and recent past. If I ask you if you are a patient person, or strong, or intelligent, you intuitively know an answer to these questions. That's transparently drawing upon that database of values. And these things might change over time, as in, "I was very impatient when I was younger, but I am not anymore."

So, if there is a time independent database of traits constituting the self, doesn't the existence of the database refute the claim that there are no unchanging aspects to the self? Not the entries in the database, but the fact that the database exists.

I suppose one could say that, though the database itself never appears in consciousness, just the values, so it remains hidden to consciousness.