# Continuity Custody **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Continuity Governance / Fiduciary Infrastructure / Personhood **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Concept Status:** Normative synthesis developed in this corpus ## Definition **Continuity custody is accountable control of the records, state, keys, interpreters and service relationships required to preserve or operate an identity-bearing subject. Custody is not ownership.** Possession of the storage medium, root credential, facility or corporate asset does not confer title to the person whose continuity depends on it. ## Role Separation A defensible custody regime distinguishes: - the **creator**, who produced an artifact, model or reconstruction; - the **infrastructure owner**, who owns physical or virtual assets; - the **operator**, who runs and maintains the system; - the **custodian**, who holds protected state under defined duties; - the **registry authority**, which maintains authoritative status and identity records; - the **trustee or fiduciary**, who must act for the beneficiary rather than itself; - the **guarantor**, which funds or backstops performance; - the **regulator**, which sets and enforces public constraints; - the **beneficiary or subject**, whose continuity is being protected; and - the **sovereign**, which supplies jurisdiction, recognition and succession capacity. One institution may temporarily occupy several roles, but the roles must remain legally and technically distinguishable. Concentrating archive, model, runtime, registry, keys, financing and adjudication in one provider creates [[wiki/Privateered Continuity|Privateered Continuity]]. ## Required Duties Custody includes care, loyalty, competence, integrity protection, provenance preservation, inspection, migration readiness, conflict disclosure and orderly transfer. It does not automatically authorize modification, activation, suspension, representation, fork, merger or termination. Those powers require separate grants, logging and [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]]. [[wiki/Continuity Fiduciary|Continuity Fiduciary]] specifies the duty-bearing role. [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]] specifies performance. [[wiki/Continuity Registry|Continuity Registry]] specifies authoritative records. [[wiki/Custodial Insolvency|Custodial Insolvency]] and [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]] govern failure. ## Consent Boundary **Recognition is not consent to custody.** A birth record, citizenship status, identity credential, archive, religious membership, platform account or technically reconstructable corpus may establish identity or discoverability without granting custody. Initial continuity authority must be traced to [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]], lawful default process or later subject consent, and each operation—archive, reconstruct, activate, copy, embody, migrate—requires scope appropriate to that act. Custody also cannot preserve obsolete authority through succession. The operative election and its supersession history must travel with the state, while an autonomous continuant retains the ability to revise inherited terms. ## Key Insight **Holding the machinery that sustains a person creates duties toward that person; it does not create ownership of the person.** ## Sources / Provenance - Corpus synthesis from [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] and [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]. - Existing fiduciary, trust, preservation and regulated-custody regimes are structural precedents only; none presently defines custody of a computational person. <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE --> ## Deep-Time Continuity Interface This node is audited through [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] for future control-surface conversion, ontological drift, succession, irreversibility, due process, and resource incidence. The backlink records analytical relevance; it does not establish continuity intent in the present rule or institution. <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE --> ## Relationships <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> 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/AWS Nitro Enclaves|AWS Nitro Enclaves]] is connected in the corpus with **Continuity Custody**. Custody can be split: host controls lifecycle while key owner controls decryption. - [[wiki/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] provides a canonical route to **Continuity Custody**. ### Additional Documented Relationships - **Continuity Custody** is associated with [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]]. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Read First in the Wiki <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED WIKI ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - [[wiki/Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Custody** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Custody** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Custody** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Custody** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Custody** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Custody** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Custodial Insolvency|Custodial Insolvency]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Custody** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Custody** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Custody** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Portability Right|Portability Right]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Custody** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Custody** within the wider system. <!-- END HUMANIZED WIKI ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - 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]], **XVII. The landlord problem** provides the narrative context for **Continuity Custody**: This is why continuity contracts, custody, provenance, ring zero, and the residual sovereign belong in the same conversation as memory hierarchies and interconnect bandwidth, and why Who Pays for Your Heaven treats hosting as a… <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> ## Research Edges <!-- BEGIN CONSCIOUSNESS MAPPING TRANSFER RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> #### Consciousness mapping and transfer graph patch — 2026-09-10 **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]] #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 826 — [[wiki/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] `canonical_route_to` → this entry** — **WIKI_INTEGRATION**; evidence `WIKI_CURRENT`, `ARTICLE_NEW`. <!-- END CONSCIOUSNESS MAPPING TRANSFER RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> <!-- BEGIN HOST RESIDUAL RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> #### 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-0424 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Custody.md`. - **HR-0425 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Custody.md`. - **HR-0426 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Custody.md`. - **HR-0427 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Custody.md`. - **HR-0428 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Custodial Insolvency|Custodial Insolvency]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Custody.md`. - **HR-0429 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Custody.md`. - **HR-1226 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1231 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Economics|Continuity Economics]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1259 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1282 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Migration Right|Migration Right]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1287 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Finance|Continuity Finance]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1297 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|Personal Authoritative State]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1298 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Service Level|Continuity Service Level]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1308 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Hosting Provider of Last Resort|Hosting Provider of Last Resort]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1309 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1310 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1316 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1331 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1337 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Orphan|Continuity Orphan]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0372 — [[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-0394 — [[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-0459 — [[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-0520 — [[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-0901 — [[wiki/Portability Right|Portability Right]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Portability Right.md`. - **HR-0975 — [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Residual Sovereign.md`. - **HR-1000 — [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Rights.md`. - **HR-1339 — [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1399 — [[wiki/AWS Nitro Enclaves|AWS Nitro Enclaves]] `cross_threads` → this entry** — **HIGH VALUE CROSS THREAD**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Custody can be split: host controls lifecycle while key owner controls decryption. <!-- END HOST RESIDUAL RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RESEARCH CANDIDATES 2026-09-11 --> ### Research Candidates - **R-002220 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** and [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]] 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 Constitutionalism, Continuity Due Process, Continuity Receivership, Continuity Service Obligation, Rights - **R-002230 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** 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 Receivership, Continuity Stack, Custodial Insolvency, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002286 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** 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, Continuity Stack, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002332 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** and [[wiki/Migration Right|Migration Right]] 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 Stack, Portability Right, Rights - **R-002342 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** and [[wiki/Continuity Finance|Continuity Finance]] 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 Election, Continuity Service Obligation, Custodial Insolvency - **R-002362 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** and [[wiki/Personal Authoritative State|Personal Authoritative State]] 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 Due Process, Continuity Election, Continuity Stack - **R-002364 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** and [[wiki/Continuity Service Level|Continuity Service Level]] 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 Due Process, Continuity Election, Continuity Service Obligation - **R-002384 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** and [[wiki/Hosting Provider of Last Resort|Hosting Provider of Last Resort]] 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 Service Obligation, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002386 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** 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 Election, Continuity Stack, Portability Right - **R-002388 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** and [[wiki/Continuity Provenance|Continuity Provenance]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure, Continuity Constitutionalism, Portability Right, Rights - **R-002400 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** 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 Due Process, Continuity Election, Portability Right, Rights - **R-002430 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** and [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]] 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 Due Process, Continuity Election, Rights - **R-002442 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** 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 (4): Continuity Receivership, Custodial Insolvency, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002447 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Custody** and [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]] 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 Due Process, Continuity Election, Residual Sovereign, Rights <!-- END HUMANIZED RESEARCH CANDIDATES 2026-09-11 --> ## Research Inference Attractors <!-- BEGIN DEEP INFERENCE ATTRACTORS 2026-09-11 --> 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-0231 — Analytic.** An archive intended for a reader centuries away must anticipate that reader's capabilities without knowing them. The solution space is layered: a physically obvious outer layer, a self-describing middle, and dense payload, which is how every serious long-message design has been structured. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] - **INF-0233 — Plausible.** Preserving now and reading later decouples the acquisition timeline from the individual's lifespan, which converts continuity from a race against biology into a storage commitment. Preservation is the only continuity intervention available to people alive today. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] - **INF-0235 — Strongly indicated.** Transplant organ banking requires exactly the perfusion, vitrification, and rewarming technology that whole-brain preservation requires. A medical market with immediate demand is funding the physical chemistry that continuity work depends on, which is the most reliable form of technological carry. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] - **INF-0238 — Analytic.** No commercial entity has a demonstrated survival record measured in centuries, but religious orders, universities, and sovereign archives do. The custodial problem for long-horizon continuity is solved by institution selection, not by technology. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] - **INF-0240 — Unresolved.** Whether preserved neural tissue is remains, property, a specimen, or a person in suspension varies by jurisdiction and has been litigated only narrowly. The classification determines who may destroy it, which is the only question that matters practically. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] - **INF-0247 — Analytic.** Jurisdictions permitting perpetual trusts already provide a legal vehicle for funding an obligation indefinitely, including the maintenance of property. Repurposing that instrument to fund compute rent for a hosted state requires no new law, only a competent drafter. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] - **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-0293 — Analytic.** Consent obtained for a clinical trial cannot meaningfully cover uses of the resulting neural corpus decades later by entities that do not yet exist. Perpetual-scope consent is the unsolved ethics problem that every long-lived neural dataset silently relies on. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Continuity Governance|Continuity Governance]] - **INF-0294 — Plausible.** Data trusts let a group hold and govern data collectively with fiduciary obligations to members, offering an alternative to individual consent for population-scale neural corpora. Fiduciary structures scale where individual consent does not, and they already exist in health research. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Continuity Governance|Continuity Governance]] - **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. - **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]] - **INF-0432 — Analytic.** A preservation arrangement requires custodial continuity for longer than any participating organization has existed, which makes institutional design the weakest link. Selecting custodians with demonstrated multi-century survival is the single highest-leverage decision available to a preservation program. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] - **INF-0442 — Strongly indicated.** Multiple copies under independent governance in different jurisdictions is the only architecture that survives the failure of any single institution or state. Independence of governance matters more than the number of copies. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] - **INF-0443 — Unresolved.** Nothing obliges a future society to revive a preserved person, and no instrument creates an enforceable claim across that interval. Endowment plus institutional incentive is the closest available substitute, and it is a weak one that should be stated plainly rather than assumed. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] <!-- END DEEP INFERENCE ATTRACTORS 2026-09-11 -->