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Integrate research/foundations notes 001–005 into Terminology, Claims, bibliography, concept notes, thought experiments, and open questions. Write phase-i-foundations-synthesis.md, finish SOUL-WP-0002, and mark SOUL-WP-0003 ready for interaction research.
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# Identity
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**Status:** revised (Phase I, 2026-08-12)
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**See also:** RQ5, H6, TE-02–TE-05, TE-08, RN-004, RN-005
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## Disambiguation
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| Question | Soul Frame term |
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| Same entity over time? | **Identity** (numerical / reidentification) |
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| What continues? | **Continuity** (may branch) |
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| Historical relatedness after branch? | **Lineage** |
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| What is it like? | **Characterization** (narrative/character) |
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Identity ≠ Continuity ≠ Lineage ≠ Character.
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## Core formulation
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> A Being continues not because its state remains the same, but because its
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> changes remain part of one appropriately connected history of self-individuation.
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> When that history branches, identity becomes lineage.
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## Continuity profile (constitutive dimensions)
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Causal, organizational, psychological, autobiographical/narrative, normative,
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relational.
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**Anchors / evidence (not constitutive alone):** provenance, address, substrate.
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## Topology labels
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`CONTINUOUS | DEGRADED | UNCERTAIN | SUCCESSOR | FORKED | RECONSTRUCTED | USURPED | TERMINATED`
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## Implications for artificial systems
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- Actor/Body replacement can preserve identity (substrate independence + continuity dependence).
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- Sameness of data is not sameness of Being.
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- Forks require governance; perfect copy while original continues yields FORKED lineage.
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- Ghosts default to authorized succession/representation, not automatic numerical identity.
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- Explicit identity governance is required because state is inspectable, copyable, editable.
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## Sources
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`research/foundations/004-identity-and-continuity.md`
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`research/foundations/ResearchNote005-IdentityContinuityStressTest.md`
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Locke; Parfit; Olson SEP; process identity literature
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