Compression - Bryant McGill

# Compression **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term ## Definition **Compression** is the representation of information with fewer resources by removing redundancy or exploiting a shared model. ## Relationships **Related concepts:** [[wiki/Information Theory|Information Theory]] · [[wiki/reference-plus-delta architecture|Reference-Plus-Delta Architecture]] · [[wiki/Distributed Relational Compression|Distributed Relational Compression]] · [[wiki/person-specific residual|Person-Specific Residual]] **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] These links record conceptual dependencies and contrasts. Institutional control, technology transfer, and empirical continuity are tracked as separate relationship types.  This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material.  ## Research Inferences  These entries translate the forward-looking register in [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]] into ordinary wiki prose. The tier labels apply to the inference, not automatically to every factual anchor inside it. The interpretive frame comes from [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]. Collection route: [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **INF-0202 — Plausible.** If the residual is the only thing that must be captured, the acquisition target shrinks by whatever fraction the shared prior explains. Estimating that fraction empirically — in mice first, through comparative connectomics — is the most consequential measurement in the entire continuity program.