# References — Research Note 005
## Identity Continuity Stress Test

This reference list supplements the Cluster B bibliography used for Research Note 004.

### SF-R046 — Cerullo, Michael A. 2015.

**“Uploading and Branching Identity.”**  
*Minds and Machines* 25: 17–36.  
DOI: `10.1007/s11023-014-9352-8`

**Soul Frame relevance:** nondestructive uploading, identity branching, continuity into multiple successors, direct comparison between uploading and personal-identity theories.

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### SF-R047 — Guay, Alexandre, and Thomas Pradeu. 2018.

**“Genidentity and Biological Processes.”**  
In Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupré, eds., *Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology*. Oxford University Press.

**Soul Frame relevance:** identity through time as a series of connected states, process-oriented diachronic identity, historical continuity.

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### SF-R048 — Weber, Christian. 2025.

**“The Multiplicity Objection Against Uploading Optimism.”**  
*Synthese*.

**Soul Frame relevance:** multi-uploading, multiplicity, need for non-branching clauses in theories that connect continuity to unique survival.

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### SF-R049 — Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

**“Memory.”**

**Soul Frame relevance:** limits of simple memory criteria, circularity concerns, amnesia and selfhood, distinction between autobiographical memory and identity.

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### SF-R050 — Qin, Xue, Simin Luan, Cong Yang, and Zhijun Li. 2026.

**“Governable Individuals: An Identity Layer for Embodied Agents That Keep Learning.”**  
arXiv:`2607.05463`.

**Soul Frame relevance:** persistent agent identity across model, memory, capability, and embodiment changes; signed lifecycle transitions; identity commitments.

**Epistemic status:** recent preprint / emerging technical work.

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### SF-R051 — Otsuka, Takumi, Kentaroh Toyoda, and Alex Leung. 2026.

**“AI Identity: Standards, Gaps, and Research Directions for AI Agents.”**  
arXiv:`2604.23280`.

**Soul Frame relevance:** persistence, verifiability, accountability, delegation, operational identity across organizational boundaries.

**Epistemic status:** recent preprint / research survey.

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### SF-R052 — Tallam, Krti. 2026.

**“Layered Mutability: Continuity and Governance in Persistent Self-Modifying Agents.”**  
arXiv:`2604.14717`.

**Soul Frame relevance:** mutability across model/self-narrative/memory layers, compositional drift, governance of persistent agents.

**Epistemic status:** recent preprint.

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### SF-R053 — Su, Yongye, Wujiang Xu, Chaoji Zuo, and Elisa Bertino. 2026.

**“ChronoMem: Version Control and Semantic Rollback for Large Language Model Agent Memory.”**  
arXiv:`2607.27773`.

**Soul Frame relevance:** explicit versioning and rollback of long-term agent memory, counterfactual restoration, technical concreteness of rollback as an identity-significant event.

**Epistemic status:** recent preprint.

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### SF-R054 — Zheng, Yusheng, Yiwei Yang, Wei Zhang, and Andi Quinn. 2026.

**“ACRFence: Preventing Semantic Rollback Attacks in Agent Checkpoint-Restore.”**  
arXiv:`2603.20625`.

**Soul Frame relevance:** checkpoint/restore, irreversible external effects, authority resurrection, replay/fork semantics.

**Epistemic status:** recent preprint.

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### SF-R055 — Spitale, Giovanni, and Federico Germani. 2025/2026.

**“The Making of Digital Ghosts: Designing Ethical AI Afterlives.”**  
Published in *Ethics and Information Technology* / corresponding preprint.

**Soul Frame relevance:** digital ghosts, consent, posthumous privacy, stewardship, simulation of communicative presence, ethical distinction between representation and person.

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### SF-R056 — Lei, Ying, Shuai Ma, Yuling Sun, and Xiaojuan Ma. 2025.

**“‘AI Afterlife’ as Digital Legacy: Perceptions, Expectations, and Concerns.”**

**Soul Frame relevance:** AI-generated agents as digital legacy, identity consistency, expectations of represented persons, lifecycle design and posthumous representation.

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# Source-to-Claim Map

| Soul Frame claim | References |
|---|---|
| Strong psychological continuity may branch | SF-R046, SF-R048, Parfit / SF-R036 |
| Unique identity cannot be inferred from continuity strength alone | SF-R046, SF-R048 |
| Process identity requires following history through time | SF-R047, SF-R041 |
| Memory is important but insufficient as a sole identity criterion | SF-R049, SF-R037 |
| Persistent AI identity may need to survive model and embodiment changes | SF-R050, SF-R051 |
| Self-modification introduces identity/governance drift | SF-R052 |
| Memory rollback is a concrete agent-system operation | SF-R053 |
| Checkpoint restoration can resurrect authority and duplicate external effects | SF-R054 |
| Digital ghosts are constructed representations requiring consent/stewardship | SF-R055, SF-R056 |
| Ghost provenance does not by itself prove numerical identity | SF-R055, SF-R056 plus Soul Frame synthesis |
| Provenance is evidence rather than continuity itself | Soul Frame synthesis supported by SF-R050–SF-R054 |
| Address continuity can be usurped | Soul Frame synthesis / identity-security implication |