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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 |