# Continuity Disposition **Domain:** Continuity / Consent / Service Classification **Doc Type:** Canonical Choice Taxonomy **Maturity:** Proposed ## Definition A **Continuity Disposition** is the outcome class selected by a person's [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]]. It answers what may happen to person-relevant state; it does not by itself select a provider, prove identity or establish that an activated entity is numerically identical to the biological principal. ## Canonical Dispositions 1. **No technological continuation:** do not preserve continuity-purpose state beyond ordinary lawful retention. 2. **Archive only:** preserve authorized records without reconstructing a person-model. 3. **Preserve pending adjudication:** hold source material while identity, rights or authority remain unresolved. 4. **Reconstruct, do not activate:** permit model assembly and inspection without running a potentially sentient continuant. 5. **Dormant executable:** preserve an executable package and interpreter dependencies without scheduled subjective execution. 6. **Active continuation:** authorize activation under declared service and governance conditions. 7. **Embodied continuation:** authorize operation through a physical or plural embodiment. 8. **Builder or generative continuation:** authorize world-building and generative capability rather than confinement to a fitted destination world. These classes must remain independently selectable. **Archive authorization is not reconstruction authorization; reconstruction authorization is not activation authorization.** ## Later Autonomy The disposition governs the initial transition. It does not permanently fix the identity, beliefs, service class or life of an autonomous continuant. [[wiki/Continuity Supersession|Continuity Supersession]] and [[wiki/Exit Rights|Exit Rights]] return authorship when the continuant can exercise it. ## Key Insight **The right to be remembered, the right to be reconstructed and the authority to awaken a person are three different questions.** ## Corpus Sources [[articles/Escape Hatch in the Skull|Fuck the Environment: We're Building an Escape Hatch in the Skull]] · [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] · [[articles/Uploading Is Imminent|Uploading Is Imminent]] · [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] · [[wiki/Black Mirror S3E4 — San Junipero|Black Mirror S3E4 — San Junipero]] ## See Also [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]], [[wiki/Executable Preservation|Executable Preservation]], [[wiki/Continuity Service Tiers|Continuity Service Tiers]], [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]]