Continuity Constitutionalism

# Continuity Constitutionalism **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Constitutional Governance / Continuity Infrastructure / Personhood **Doc Type:** Canonical Navigation Hub **Maturity:** Evolving **Concept Status:** Normative synthesis developed in this corpus ## Definition **Continuity constitutionalism is the ordering of authority, duty, custody, resources, procedure and succession when a person's continued agency depends on administered infrastructure.** It begins from the proposition that recognition alone cannot preserve a subject whose execution, memory, identity or relationships can be suspended by an operator. The constitutional unit is therefore not only the person. It is the relationship among the subject, the custodian, the registry, the service provider, the guarantor, the regulator and the sovereign whose systems make the subject administratively and materially present. ## Canonical Architecture [[wiki/Digital Afterlife|Digital Afterlife]] is the public gateway into this constitutional layer. Its governance, personhood, infrastructure, government-precedent, red-team, and high-velocity-jurisdiction branches remain subordinate to the evidence and rights boundaries defined here. [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] is the transversal temporal and institutional-analysis layer. It does not replace this constitutional superhub: it tests whether the architecture's objects, control surfaces, duty bearers, records, funding, remedies, and exit rights can survive institutional and ontological change. 1. **Election and prospective autonomy:** [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]], [[wiki/Continuity Advance Directive|Continuity Advance Directive]] and [[wiki/Continuity Supersession|Continuity Supersession]] govern initial authority and its later return to an autonomous continuant. 2. **Status and evidence:** [[wiki/Digital Thread|Digital Thread]], [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]], [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]] and [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|Personal Authoritative State]] distinguish lineage evidence from identity and standing. 3. **Custody and authority:** [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] separates creator, owner, operator, custodian, trustee, registry authority, guarantor, regulator, beneficiary and sovereign. 4. **Positive obligation:** [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]], [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]] and [[wiki/Continuity Service Level|Continuity Service Level]] convert recognition into measurable duties. 5. **Existential allocation:** [[wiki/Existence by Scheduling|Existence by Scheduling]], [[wiki/Compute Entitlement|Compute Entitlement]] and [[wiki/Continuity Resource Allocation|Continuity Resource Allocation]] treat runtime, latency and resolution as conditions of agency. 6. **Mobility and exit:** [[wiki/Migration Right|Migration Right]], [[wiki/Portability Right|Portability Right]] and [[wiki/Orderly Transfer|Orderly Transfer]] prevent dependency from becoming captivity. 7. **Failure and succession:** [[wiki/Custodial Insolvency|Custodial Insolvency]], [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]], [[wiki/Successor Custodian|Successor Custodian]] and [[wiki/Hosting Provider of Last Resort|Hosting Provider of Last Resort]] govern institutional mortality. 8. **Long duration:** [[wiki/Continuity Finance|Continuity Finance]], [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]] and [[wiki/Cryptographic Succession|Cryptographic Succession]] preserve capacity across generations of institutions and technology. ## Consent Boundary **Recognition is not consent to custody.** Registration, citizenship, identity credentials, archival inclusion, religious affiliation, platform membership and technical reconstructability do not by themselves authorize preservation for continuity purposes, reconstruction, activation or administration. The reverse limit is equally important: **election does not create permanent ownership.** A biological principal can establish initial conditions without denying a later autonomous continuant the standing to amend them. The constitutional architecture must begin with authored election and recursively return authorship through due process, supersession and exit. ## Status Boundary The architecture must not collapse **record → model → executable process → running continuant → legally recognized subject**. Each transition requires evidence and authority of its own. Provenance can establish derivation without establishing numerical identity. Legal protection can begin under uncertainty through [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]] and [[wiki/Precautionary Standing|Precautionary Standing]] without pretending that metaphysics has been settled. ## Evidentiary Boundary Existing preservation, utility, insolvency, fiduciary and sovereign-continuity mechanisms supply precedents for separable duties. **No current legal regime applies this complete architecture to computational persons.** Its application here is structural analogy and normative design. ## Key Insight **Once personhood relies on administered infrastructure, it becomes a constitutional relationship.**  ## Deep-Time Principle **A right whose duty bearer, technology, jurisdiction, or beneficiary may outlive the institutions that recognized it requires a succession architecture, not merely a declaration.** Apply [[wiki/Deep-Time Continuity Analysis|Deep-Time Continuity Analysis]] without collapsing structural future use into evidence of present intent. [[wiki/Continuity Succession|Continuity Succession]], [[wiki/Semantic Preservation|Semantic Preservation]], [[wiki/Deep-Time Financial Assurance|Deep-Time Financial Assurance]], and [[wiki/Continuity Off-Ramp Architecture|Continuity Off-Ramp Architecture]] are therefore constitutional components rather than archival afterthoughts.  ## See Also [[wiki/Infrastructure Constitutionalism|Infrastructure Constitutionalism]], [[wiki/Rights|Rights]], [[wiki/Dual Constitution of AI|Dual Constitution of AI]], [[wiki/Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]] ## 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. ### Additional Documented Relationships - **Continuity Constitutionalism** is associated with [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]]. - **Continuity Constitutionalism** is associated with [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]]. - **Continuity Constitutionalism** is associated with [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]].  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Compute Entitlement|Compute Entitlement]] — supplies the related technology, method, or technical system context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Finance|Continuity Finance]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Resource Allocation|Continuity Resource Allocation]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Service Level|Continuity Service Level]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Custodial Insolvency|Custodial Insolvency]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Digital Thread|Digital Thread]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Existence by Scheduling|Existence by Scheduling]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Hosting Provider of Last Resort|Hosting Provider of Last Resort]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Migration Right|Migration Right]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|Personal Authoritative State]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Portability Right|Portability Right]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Constitutionalism** within the wider system.  ## Research Edges  #### 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-0392 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Compute Entitlement|Compute Entitlement]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0393 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0394 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0395 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0396 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Finance|Continuity Finance]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0397 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0398 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0399 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Resource Allocation|Continuity Resource Allocation]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0400 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Service Level|Continuity Service Level]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0401 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0402 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Custodial Insolvency|Custodial Insolvency]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0403 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Digital Thread|Digital Thread]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0404 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0405 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Existence by Scheduling|Existence by Scheduling]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0406 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Hosting Provider of Last Resort|Hosting Provider of Last Resort]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0407 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0408 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Migration Right|Migration Right]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0409 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0410 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|Personal Authoritative State]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0411 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Portability Right|Portability Right]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0412 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0413 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-1188 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1189 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1195 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1206 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/State Lineage|State Lineage]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1212 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Orphan|Continuity Orphan]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1241 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Restoration Disclosure|Restoration Disclosure]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1252 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Economics|Continuity Economics]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1267 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1360 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0371 — [[wiki/Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure.md`. - **HR-0457 — [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Election.md`. - **HR-0998 — [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Rights.md`.   ### Research Candidates - **R-002144 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Constitutionalism** and [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (10): Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure, Continuity Custody, Continuity Receivership, Continuity Resource Allocation, Continuity Service Obligation, Digital Thread, Durable Identity, Existence by Scheduling, Migration Right, Personal Authoritative State - **R-002146 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Constitutionalism** and [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (9): Compute Entitlement, Continuity Custody, Continuity Election, Continuity Receivership, Continuity Service Level, Minimum Viable Continuity, Personal Authoritative State, Rights, Successor Standing - **R-002158 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Constitutionalism** and [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (7): Compute Entitlement, Continuity Finance, Continuity Resource Allocation, Continuity Service Level, Existence by Scheduling, Hosting Provider of Last Resort, Rights - **R-002180 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Constitutionalism** and [[wiki/State Lineage|State Lineage]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (6): Continuity Election, Continuity Provenance, Digital Thread, Durable Identity, Migration Right, Personal Authoritative State - **R-002192 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Constitutionalism** and [[wiki/Continuity Orphan|Continuity Orphan]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (6): Continuity Finance, Continuity Receivership, Custodial Insolvency, Durable Identity, Hosting Provider of Last Resort, Rights - **R-002250 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Constitutionalism** and [[wiki/Restoration Disclosure|Restoration Disclosure]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Election, Continuity Provenance, Continuity Service Level, Digital Thread, Personal Authoritative State - **R-002272 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Constitutionalism** and [[wiki/Continuity Economics|Continuity Economics]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Finance, Continuity Receivership, Custodial Insolvency, Hosting Provider of Last Resort, Rights - **R-002302 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Constitutionalism** and [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure, Continuity Election, Hosting Provider of Last Resort, Rights, Successor Standing - **R-002488 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Constitutionalism** and [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]] 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 Election, Migration Right, Portability Right, Rights  ## 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-0299 — Analytic.** The durable questions — who may pause, copy, modify, or terminate a hosted state, and by what process — are constitutional in form rather than regulatory. Framing them constitutionally now produces categories that survive technological change, while regulatory framing produces rules that expire.  ## Research Inference Attractors  These are secondary semantic placements for the inference attractor network. Each statement keeps its original ID and tier; its canonical cluster page links back to every destination. Source register: [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]]. Interpretive context: [[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-0284 — Plausible.** Proposed revisions classifying raw brain signals as high-risk biometric data would bring neural recording under the strictest existing European regime without new legislation. Reclassification within an existing framework is faster than statute and is the most likely European route. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Continuity Governance|Continuity Governance]] - **INF-0286 — Unresolved.** No jurisdiction has defined the status of a running emulation, and the first determination will likely arrive through an ordinary dispute — a contract, an estate, a tax question — rather than through a rights case. Mundane procedural law will settle the question before constitutional law addresses it. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Continuity Governance|Continuity Governance]] - **INF-0288 — Analytic.** Liability frameworks for hosting providers were written for content, not for residents, and they allocate responsibility away from the operator. Importing intermediary-liability logic into continuity hosting would leave hosted persons structurally unprotected by default. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Continuity Governance|Continuity Governance]] - **INF-0289 — Plausible.** Guardianship law already governs decisions for persons who cannot advocate for themselves, providing a ready-made framework for suspended or degraded hosted states. Repurposing guardianship is faster and more likely than authoring new status categories. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Continuity Governance|Continuity Governance]] - **INF-0290 — Analytic.** A statutory right to erasure applied to a hosted person is a right to terminate a mind, which is a collision between two coherent legal principles with no established resolution. The conflict is foreseeable now and will be discovered by a deletion request. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Continuity Governance|Continuity Governance]] - **INF-0297 — Plausible.** Insurers will need to price the failure of a continuity host, which requires actuarial models of substrate reliability and an assigned monetary value to a preserved state. Actuarial pricing is the moment an abstraction becomes a recognized object in the economy. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Continuity Governance|Continuity Governance]] - **INF-0298 — Strongly indicated.** Independent audit of what an operator did to a hosted state requires immutable logging designed in from the start, because retrospective audit of a mutable system proves nothing. Log architecture is therefore a rights guarantee implemented in code. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Continuity Governance|Continuity Governance]] - **INF-0300 — Analytic.** Legal categories harden early and change slowly, so the decisions made while the technology is still small will govern it when it is large. The current period is the one in which the terms are set, which is why standards participation and model legislation carry more leverage now than at any later point. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Continuity Governance|Continuity Governance]]