# Cross-Substrate Agency Attribution **Domain:** Rights / Law / Identity / Embodiment **Doc Type:** Canonical Governance Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[wiki/Authority–Identity Separation|Authority–Identity Separation]], [[wiki/Addressable Embodiment|Addressable Embodiment]], [[wiki/Transition Consent|Transition Consent]] --- ## Definition **Cross-Substrate Agency Attribution** is the evidentiary and legal process of distinguishing the intentional actor, local embodiment, displaced native, delegated authority and technical operator when action crosses an embodiment or substrate boundary. ## Minimum Evidence - authenticated occupant and session provenance; - a time-resolved control-state record; - separation of native, operator and automated actions; - records of authorization, revocation and access escalation; - memory provenance and preservation of exculpatory state; and - an appeal route capable of reaching the infrastructure custodian. ## Context In [[wiki/The Thirteenth Floor (1999)|The Thirteenth Floor]], David acts through Hall's body. Witnesses encounter Hall's embodiment while the relevant intent belongs elsewhere. Treating the body as the person would punish a local subject for an upper operator's acts. The concept generalizes to remote avatars, shared control, neural interfaces and autonomous co-agents without assuming that any current system reproduces the film's mechanics. ## Key Insight **When embodiment no longer proves occupancy, accountability requires provenance of control rather than appearance alone.** ## Sources / Provenance - Canonicalized from the David/Hall occupancy case in [[wiki/The Thirteenth Floor (1999)|The Thirteenth Floor]]. - Legal applications are prospective corpus analysis. ## See Also [[wiki/Native Displacement|Native Displacement]], [[wiki/Rights|Rights]], [[wiki/Proof of Descent|Proof of Descent]], [[wiki/Ownership of Mind|Ownership of Mind]]