# Continuity Economics **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Economics / Continuity Infrastructure / Governance **Doc Type:** Canonical Economic Framework **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Energetic Sovereignty]], [[Service-Level Governance]], [[Continuity Access Inequality]], [[Infrastructure as Power]], [[Digital Afterlife]] --- ## Definition **Continuity Economics** studies how the energy, compute, storage, bandwidth, maintenance, insurance, labor and institutional obligations required for persistent personhood are financed and allocated. It begins where the metaphor of effortless cloud existence ends. A post-biological person remains dependent on material systems with costs, scarcity, replacement cycles and operators. ## Governance Questions - Is continuity privately purchased, publicly guaranteed, insured or inherited? - Who bears long-duration obligations after a provider fails? - Can service quality vary without creating different grades of personhood? - How are redundancy, migration and restoration reserves funded? - When does a service relationship become a life-support duty? ## Finance, Utility and Insolvency [[wiki/Continuity Finance|Continuity Finance]] asks how a specific long-duration obligation remains funded after the original provider is gone. [[wiki/Financial Assurance|Financial Assurance]], segregated reserves, fiduciary structures and public backstops are existing mechanisms that can be studied without claiming that they already apply to computational persons. [[wiki/Continuity Utility|Continuity Utility]] asks when indispensable service should carry a duty to serve, a protected floor, disconnection safeguards and a provider of last resort. [[wiki/Custodial Insolvency|Custodial Insolvency]] and [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]] address the moment ordinary corporate failure becomes a threat to subjects rather than accounts. ## Quantitative Architecture [[wiki/Cost of a Continuant|Cost of a Continuant]] defines the auditable service cost and its boundary. [[wiki/Energy Budget of Persistent Persons|Energy Budget of Persistent Persons]] and [[wiki/Storage Medium Decay and Refresh Economics|Storage Medium Decay and Refresh Economics]] separate measured resource use from metaphors of immaterial persistence. [[wiki/Continuity Endowment Sizing|Continuity Endowment Sizing]] and [[wiki/Actuarial Modeling of Institutional Mortality|Actuarial Modeling of Institutional Mortality]] translate long-duration promises into capital, stress and succession requirements. Distribution remains explicit: [[wiki/Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending|Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending]] compares forgone uses without reducing personhood to a cost-effectiveness score, while [[wiki/Carbon Accounting for Continuity Infrastructure|Carbon Accounting for Continuity Infrastructure]] declares the climate boundary of the service. ## Black Mirror Context [[Black Mirror S3E4 — San Junipero]] displays the destination while withholding its financing. [[Black Mirror S7E1 — Common People]] exposes the danger: tiered access, advertising and recurring fees can turn existential dependence into revenue extraction. [[Continuity Access Inequality]] is the distributive consequence. [[Service-Level Governance]] converts paid or public provision into enforceable duties rather than aspirational availability. ## Key Insight **If continued existence consumes resources, economic design becomes part of the constitution of personhood.** ## Sources / Provenance - Canonicalized from the San Junipero–Common People contrast and [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]]. ## See Also [[Resource Allocation]], [[Risk-Indexed Provisioning]], [[Hosting Provider of Last Resort]], [[Residual Sovereign]], [[Rights]], [[Continuity Finance]], [[Continuity Liability]], [[Continuity Commons]] ## 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. ### Key Relationships - [[wiki/Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive|Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive]] is associated with **Continuity Economics**. ### Connections in this corpus - The technical comparison identifies a convergence: [[wiki/PORTS-Pike finance structure|PORTS-Pike finance structure]] is connected in the corpus with **Continuity Economics**. Compute existence ultimately depends on financed land, power, shell and long-duration obligations. - [[wiki/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] provides a canonical route to **Continuity Economics**. ### Additional Documented Relationships - **Continuity Economics** is associated with [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]]. - **Continuity Economics** is associated with [[wiki/Continuity Orphan|Continuity Orphan]]. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Read First in the Wiki <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED WIKI ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - [[wiki/Computational Metabolism|Computational Metabolism]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Access Inequality|Continuity Access Inequality]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Cutoff Problem|Continuity Cutoff Problem]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Finance|Continuity Finance]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Cost of a Continuant|Cost of a Continuant]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Custodial Insolvency|Custodial Insolvency]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Financial Assurance|Financial Assurance]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** 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 Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Infrastructure as Power|Infrastructure as Power]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending|Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Stack|Continuity Stack]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Continuity Economics** 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]], **XVI. The passenger manifest** provides the narrative context for **Continuity Economics**: Under that architecture there is no obvious technical ceiling that says only a handful of people could be carried. - In [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]], **II. The host is reusable; the person is the delta** provides the narrative context for **Continuity Economics**: Energy economics is where this stops being an elegant compression scheme and becomes a civilizational strategy. <!-- 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 815 — [[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]] #### Host-infrastructure integration This entry is expanded through the concrete host-side relationships and status-qualified edges below. #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0445 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Access Inequality|Continuity Access Inequality]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Economics.md`. - **HR-0446 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Finance|Continuity Finance]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Economics.md`. - **HR-0447 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Economics.md`. - **HR-0448 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Cost of a Continuant|Cost of a Continuant]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Economics.md`. - **HR-0449 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Custodial Insolvency|Custodial Insolvency]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Economics.md`. - **HR-0450 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Economics.md`. - **HR-0451 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Financial Assurance|Financial Assurance]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Economics.md`. - **HR-0452 — `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 Economics.md`. - **HR-0453 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Infrastructure as Power|Infrastructure as Power]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Economics.md`. - **HR-0454 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending|Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Economics.md`. - **HR-0455 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Economics.md`. - **HR-0456 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Economics.md`. - **HR-1187 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Orphan|Continuity Orphan]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1215 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1230 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Minimum Viable Continuity|Minimum Viable Continuity]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1300 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Ring Zero|Ring Zero]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1301 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Existence by Scheduling|Existence by Scheduling]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1305 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1306 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Continuity Resource Allocation|Continuity Resource Allocation]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1353 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive|Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0049 — [[wiki/Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive|Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive]] `constrains` → this entry** — **CORPUS ARCHITECTURE**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Core host/residual architecture from article and continuity wiki. - **HR-0229 — [[wiki/PORTS-Pike Technology Campus|PORTS-Pike finance structure]] `cross_threads` → this entry** — **ANALYTIC CONVERGENCE**; evidence `WEB_PORTS_NVIDIA`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Compute existence ultimately depends on financed land, power, shell and long-duration obligations. - **HR-0342 — [[wiki/Computational Metabolism|Computational Metabolism]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Computational Metabolism.md`. - **HR-0387 — [[wiki/Continuity Access Inequality|Continuity Access Inequality]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Access Inequality.md`. - **HR-0431 — [[wiki/Continuity Cutoff Problem|Continuity Cutoff Problem]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Cutoff Problem.md`. - **HR-0471 — [[wiki/Continuity Finance|Continuity Finance]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Finance.md`. - **HR-0521 — [[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-0543 — [[wiki/Cost of a Continuant|Cost of a Continuant]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Cost of a Continuant.md`. - **HR-0866 — [[wiki/Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending|Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending.md`. - **HR-1002 — [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Rights.md`. - **HR-1231 — [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1252 — [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. <!-- END HOST RESIDUAL RELATIONSHIP GRAPH 2026-09-10 --> <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RESEARCH CANDIDATES 2026-09-11 --> ### Research Candidates - **R-002142 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Economics** 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 (11): Continuity Access Inequality, Continuity Cutoff Problem, Continuity Finance, Continuity Receivership, Custodial Insolvency, Energetic Sovereignty, Financial Assurance, Hosting Provider of Last Resort, Infrastructure as Power, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002198 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Economics** 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 (6): Continuity Cutoff Problem, Continuity Stack, Energetic Sovereignty, Hosting Provider of Last Resort, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002228 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Economics** 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 Access Inequality, Continuity Receivership, Cost of a Continuant, Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending, Rights - **R-002231 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Economics** and [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] 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-002273 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Economics** and [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] 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-002368 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Economics** and [[wiki/Ring Zero|Ring Zero]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Energetic Sovereignty, Infrastructure as Power, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002370 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Economics** and [[wiki/Existence by Scheduling|Existence by Scheduling]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Computational Metabolism, Continuity Stack, Energetic Sovereignty, Rights - **R-002378 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Economics** and [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]] 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 Finance, Continuity Stack, Hosting Provider of Last Resort, Rights - **R-002380 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Economics** and [[wiki/Continuity Resource Allocation|Continuity Resource Allocation]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Computational Metabolism, Continuity Access Inequality, Continuity Stack, Energetic Sovereignty - **R-002474 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Continuity Economics** and [[wiki/Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive|Hot Interpreter and Cold Archive]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Computational Metabolism, Continuity Stack, Energetic Sovereignty, Residual Sovereign <!-- 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-0006 — Analytic.** Channel count has followed a doubling cadence closer to instrumentation than to semiconductors, because each channel carries a biological interface cost that Moore's law does not amortize. The break in that curve will come from multiplexing at the tissue boundary, not from finer lithography. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] - **INF-0018 — Analytic.** Power, not data, is the first hard ceiling on implant scaling, because heat dissipation in tissue is bounded at roughly a degree of local rise. Every channel-count roadmap is implicitly a thermal roadmap, and low-power neuromorphic front ends are the most direct route past it. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] - **INF-0019 — Strongly indicated.** Moving the decoder onto the implant converts a bandwidth problem into a compute problem, and compute miniaturizes faster than tissue-boundary bandwidth improves. The implant that ships its own model, not its own spikes, is the architecture that scales. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] - **INF-0431 — Plausible.** Replacing lost neurons risks the information they carried, which makes neural regeneration an identity question rather than only a medical one. Any successful therapy here will produce the first clinical data on how much of a person survives cell turnover. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Brain Preservation|Brain Preservation]] - **INF-0438 — Strongly indicated.** Any expensive continuity technology selects its early population by wealth and proximity, and early populations shape the norms that follow. Who goes first is therefore a determinant of what the technology becomes, not merely of who benefits. - **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]] - **INF-0469 — Strongly indicated.** States are purchasing national compute capacity as strategic infrastructure, which places continuity-relevant hosting inside sovereign facilities. Who hosts a mind may ultimately be a state rather than a company, and several states are building the capacity now. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Neurotechnology Ecosystem|Neurotechnology Ecosystem]] <!-- END DEEP INFERENCE ATTRACTORS 2026-09-11 -->