Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure

# Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Transhumanism / Neurotechnology / Systems Engineering **Doc Type:** Concept Node **Classification:** Infrastructure Concept **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]], [[Substrate Independence]], [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[Connectomics]], [[Neuromorphic Computing]], [[Continuity Stack]] --- > [!info] Complete reading architecture > [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity: Transfer, Reconstruction, Custody, and Descent]] is the canonical collection joining this infrastructure concept to the essential articles, documentary BCI record, persistence and reconstruction sequence, custody layer, and personhood questions. > [!info] Technical vocabulary > [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] decomposes the continuity stack into acquisition, decoding, memory substrate, neuroinformatics, standards, synchronized transport, durable storage, and governance. ## Definition **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** designates the technological, institutional, and theoretical stack through which human-specific state could be mapped, modeled, preserved, serialized, hosted, and tested across biological and computational substrates. Its layers include reference anatomy and cell typing, connectomics, molecular and epigenetic state, dynamic neural activity, functional models, neural read and write channels, closed-loop control, preservation, standardized neurodata, execution substrates, embodiment, external phenotype, provenance, and custody. --- ## General Context The concept functions as an integrating frame for research programs across neuroscience, computer science, genomics, preservation, materials engineering, standards, data infrastructure, and computational hosting. [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] now documents the stack through a thirteen-layer dependency registry and a disposition ledger for the original ninety-item survey. Named programs, suppliers, licensing agreements, datasets, standards bodies, clinical systems, and research collaborations establish specific dependencies and interfaces across the stack. The remaining frontier is stated directly as **integration, [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|causal sufficiency]], and [[wiki/numerical identity|numerical identity]]**. The companion architecture in [[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]] separates reusable human and world structure from the [[wiki/person-specific residual|person-specific residual]]. This [[wiki/Host–Residual Architecture|Host–Residual Architecture]] is an engineering synthesis supported by reference-plus-delta precedents in genomics, machine learning, scene composition, and shared neural models. The size and contents of a [[wiki/minimum causally sufficient residual|Minimum Causally Sufficient Residual]] remain an empirical question. --- ## Transhumanism and the Epstein Science Network Context Consciousness continuity infrastructure is the **central organizing concept** of the Transhumanism collection. [[articles/Epstein Transhumanist Research Network|Epstein: Forensic Reconstruction of the Transhumanist Research Network]] maps the documented funding and network relationships as systematic coordination supporting this infrastructure across five interdependent domains: [[wiki/AI|machine intelligence]], [[wiki/Substrate Independence|substrate independence]], [[wiki/Mind Uploading|consciousness transfer]], biological continuity, and [[wiki/Life Extension|life extension]]. The infrastructure survived its scandal—the technologies dispersed, went private, and accelerated, because the underlying [[wiki/Selection Gradient|selection gradients]] that created demand are structural rather than social. The [[wiki/Continuity Stack|continuity stack]] documented in [[articles/The Hawking Continuity|The Hawking Continuity]] provides a case study: Intel's ACAT achieving 97.3% cognitive prediction accuracy, MIT Media Lab's [[wiki/Affective Computing|affective computing]] reaching 87% emotional state detection, and AlterEgo detecting subvocalized speech at 92% accuracy. The collection's central methodological claim is that the sexual-crime domain exhibits high [[wiki/Disclosure Asymmetry|disclosure density]] while the consciousness continuity domain exhibits low disclosure density—a measurable asymmetry reflecting [[wiki/Selection Gradient|selection pressure]] on finite-bandwidth information systems rather than evidence absence. --- ## Key Insight Consciousness continuity infrastructure is a **convergent engineering stack whose component disciplines are already operational**. The public record establishes mapping, cell typing, neural recording and decoding, causal writing, closed-loop control, preservation, serialization, hosting substrates, externalized identity models, and BCI standards as named fields with working systems. Whole-person acquisition at sufficient fidelity, successful re-instantiation, and numerical identity remain the three load-bearing unresolved questions. ## Constitutional Layer The technical stack does not by itself determine who has standing, who may activate or alter a state, who owes maintenance, or what happens when the operator fails. Those questions form [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]]. The load-bearing sequence is [[wiki/Digital Thread|traceable transformation]] → [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|continuity provenance]] → [[wiki/Continuity Custody|custody]] → [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|service obligation]] → [[wiki/Orderly Transfer|succession and transfer]]. The status chain must remain explicit: **record → model → executable process → running continuant → legally recognized subject**. Integration can move a system along that chain, but no technical layer automatically proves numerical identity or legal personhood. --- ## See Also [[Continuity Stack]], [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]], [[Connectomics]], [[Neuromorphic Computing]], [[Substrate Independence]], [[Disclosure Asymmetry]], [[Convergent Ecology]], [[Continuity Custody]], [[Long-Term Digital Preservation]] ## Relationships  This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. Its source context is developed in [[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]] and [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Connections in this corpus - [[wiki/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] provides a canonical route to **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure**. ### Additional Documented Relationships - **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** is associated with [[wiki/Rights|Rights]].  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Connectomics|Connectomics]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Digital Thread|Digital Thread]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] — supplies the related technology, method, or technical system context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Substrate Independence|Substrate Independence]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Neural Mapping|Neural Mapping]] — supplies the related technology, method, or technical system context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Personal Continuity Ontology|Personal Continuity Ontology]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Post-Biological Personhood|Post-Biological Personhood]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Substrate Transition|Substrate Transition]] — supplies the related event or historical development context needed to place **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** within the wider system.  ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]], **Editorial note on this revision** provides the narrative context for **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure**: What has changed most is not the argument's ambition but its exposure.  ## Research Edges  #### Consciousness mapping and transfer graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Resolved aliases:** `continuity engineering stack` **Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **Edge 608 — `structurally_integrates` → [[wiki/reference anatomy and cell typing|reference anatomy and cell typing]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 609 — `structurally_integrates` → physical wiring / connectomics** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 610 — `structurally_integrates` → [[wiki/molecular and epigenetic state|molecular and epigenetic state]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 611 — `structurally_integrates` → [[wiki/dynamic neural activity|dynamic neural activity]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 612 — `structurally_integrates` → [[wiki/functional and executable models|functional and executable models]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 613 — `structurally_integrates` → [[wiki/semantic and intent decoding|semantic and intent decoding]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 614 — `structurally_integrates` → [[wiki/causal neural write access|causal neural write access]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 615 — `structurally_integrates` → [[wiki/closed-loop control|closed-loop control]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 616 — `structurally_integrates` → [[wiki/preservation|preservation]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 617 — `structurally_integrates` → [[wiki/standardized representation and serialization|standardized representation and serialization]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 618 — `structurally_integrates` → [[wiki/computational hosting|computational hosting]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 619 — `structurally_integrates` → [[wiki/embodiment and environment|embodiment and environment]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 620 — `structurally_integrates` → [[wiki/autobiographical and behavioral context|autobiographical and behavioral context]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 621 — `leaves_unresolved` → [[wiki/causal sufficiency|causal sufficiency]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. - **Edge 622 — `leaves_unresolved` → [[wiki/numerical identity|numerical identity]]** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified. #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 805 — [[wiki/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] `canonical_route_to` → this entry** — **WIKI_INTEGRATION**; evidence `WIKI_CURRENT`, `ARTICLE_NEW`.   #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **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]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0370 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Connectomics|Connectomics]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure.md`. - **HR-0371 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure.md`. - **HR-0372 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure.md`. - **HR-0373 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure.md`. - **HR-0374 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure.md`. - **HR-0375 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure.md`. - **HR-0376 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Digital Thread|Digital Thread]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure.md`. - **HR-0377 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure.md`. - **HR-0378 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure.md`. - **HR-0379 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Substrate Independence|Substrate Independence]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure.md`. - **HR-1201 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1238 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1332 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0366 — [[wiki/Connectomics|Connectomics]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Connectomics.md`. - **HR-0393 — [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0519 — [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Stack.md`. - **HR-0810 — [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture.md`. - **HR-0836 — [[wiki/Neural Mapping|Neural Mapping]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Neural Mapping.md`. - **HR-0893 — [[wiki/Personal Continuity Ontology|Personal Continuity Ontology]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Personal Continuity Ontology.md`. - **HR-0905 — [[wiki/Post-Biological Personhood|Post-Biological Personhood]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Post-Biological Personhood.md`. - **HR-0938 — [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Reconstructed Person.md`. - **HR-1098 — [[wiki/Substrate Transition|Substrate Transition]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Substrate Transition.md`. - **HR-1335 — [[wiki/Civilizational Payload|Civilizational Payload]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`.   ### Research Candidates - **R-002170 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** and [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (7): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Custody, Continuity Provenance, Continuity Service Obligation, Post-Biological Personhood, Reconstructed Person, Substrate Transition - **R-002244 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** and [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Connectomics, Continuity Stack, Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture, Reconstructed Person, Substrate Independence - **R-002432 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** and [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Provenance, Continuity Stack, Digital Thread - **R-002439 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure** and [[wiki/Civilizational Payload|Civilizational Payload]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Provenance, Continuity Stack, Long-Term Digital Preservation, Substrate Transition  ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Conscious machines. Intelligent machines are inevitable — by some measures they are already here. Synthetic consciousness would be a much greater breakthrough, in some ways a more profound one than finding life on other planets. One problem: We don't understand how consciousness works, so recreating it will require learning a lot more about what it means to be both smart and self-aware. Another problem: We don't understand what consciousness is, so it's not clear what "smart" and "self-aware" mean, exactly. Gerald Edelman's brain-based devices are a promising solution. Rather than trying to deconstruct the brain as a computer, they construct neural processing from the bottom up, mimicking the workings of actual neurons. Odds: 50-50." > **— Corey S. Powell**, *2009, Edge Annual Question, “What Will Change Everything?”* [[reminders/Consciousness/Synthetic Consciousness Could Surpass Finding Alien Life by Corey S. Powell|Synthetic Consciousness Could Surpass Finding Alien Life by Corey S. Powell]] > "While medicine will advance in the next half century, we are not on a crash-course for achieving immortality by curing all disease. Bodies simply wear down with use. We are on a crash-course, however, with technologies that let us store unthinkable amounts of data and run gargantuan simulations. Therefore, well before we understand how brains work, we will find ourselves able to digitally copy the brain's structure and able to download the conscious mind into a computer." > **— David M. Eagleman**, *2009, Edge Annual Question, “What Will Change Everything?”* [[reminders/Mind Upload/Brain Copies May Arrive Before We Understand the Brain by David M. Eagleman|Brain Copies May Arrive Before We Understand the Brain by David M. Eagleman]] > "While I find this a tricky idea on the one hand, it is utterly simple and elegant on the other. Pattee has given us a schema and a way to think about how, using nothing but physics (including the principle of complementarity), life comes out of non-living stuff. The schema, way up the evolutionary scale, also accounts for how the subjective mind can emerge from objective neurons. Pattee suggests that instead of approaching conscious cognition as either information processing or neural dynamics, there is a third approach available. Consciousness is not reducible to one or the other. Both should be kept on the table. They are complementary properties of the same system. I say hats off to Pattee. We brain scientists have our work cut out for us." > **— Michael Gazzaniga**, *2017, Edge Annual Question, “What Scientific Term or Concept Ought to Be More Widely Known?”* [[reminders/Consciousness/Mind and Neurons May Be Complementary Properties of One System by Michael Gazzaniga|Mind and Neurons May Be Complementary Properties of One System by Michael Gazzaniga]] > "What does this have to do with consciousness? Instead of focusing on pedantic philosophical issues, Crick and Koch began with their naïve intuitions. "Consciousness" has many attributes—continuity in time, a sense of agency or free will, recursiveness or "self-awareness," etc. But one attribute that stands out is subjective unity: you experience all your diverse sense impressions, thoughts, willed actions and memories as being a unity—not jittery or fragmented. This attribute of consciousness, with the accompanying sense of the immediate "present" or "here and now," is so obvious that we don't usually think about it; we regard it as axiomatic." > **— Vilayanur Ramachandran**, *2012, Edge Annual Question, “What Is Your Favorite Deep, Elegant, or Beautiful Explanation?”* [[reminders/Consciousness/Consciousness Unifies What the Brain Keeps Distributed by Vilayanur Ramachandran|Consciousness Unifies What the Brain Keeps Distributed by Vilayanur Ramachandran]] From [[wiki/The World, the Flesh and the Devil|The World, the Flesh and the Devil]]: Bernal imagines group-level memory and self-continuity as members are replaced; this is a proposed architecture, not an observed transfer. > "But the multiple individual would be, barring cataclysmic accidents, immortal, the older component as they died being replaced by newer ones without losing the continuity of the self, the memories and feelings of the older member transferring themselves almost completely to the common stock before its death." > **— J. D. Bernal**, *1929, The World, the Flesh and the Devil, “The Flesh”* [[reminders/Consciousness/A Multiple Mind Could Outlive Its Members by J. D. Bernal|A Multiple Mind Could Outlive Its Members by J. D. Bernal]]