# Behavioral Continuity **Entity class:** Identity concept **Domain:** Cognitive science / Personal identity **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Behavioral continuity is the persistence of characteristic preferences, responses, habits, values, and interaction patterns across time or across a reconstruction. ## Mechanism and significance It can support recognition and functional identity while remaining distinct from biological continuity, structural continuity, memory continuity, and subjective continuity. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Generative Humans, Continuity, and Presence|Generative Humans, Continuity, and Presence]] - **Primary fields:** [[Digital Human Twin]] · [[Machine Succession]] · [[Posthumous Avatar]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Alcor Life Extension Foundation]] · [[Cryonics]] · [[Structural Continuity]] · [[Stem-Cell Banking]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.