# Deep-Time Future Generations **Domain:** Deep Time / Intergenerational Governance / Future Persons **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Canonical router ## Definition **Deep-Time Future Generations** is the branch connecting continuity to law and institutions that already recognize non-existent future people as legitimate objects of present responsibility. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity The concept demonstrates that a beneficiary need not yet exist for present institutions to owe duties concerning future welfare. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence The UN Declaration on Future Generations, Wales's statutory framework, nuclear waste regulation, and future-exposure standards all instantiate forms of prospective responsibility. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis Continuity law may eventually extend from future generations to future continuants whose source person already exists. ## Evidentiary Boundary Future-generations law does not currently recognize uploaded persons. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/UN Declaration on Future Generations|UN Declaration on Future Generations]] · [[wiki/Future Generations Commissioner|Future Generations Commissioner]] · [[wiki/Deep-Time Beneficiary|Deep-Time Beneficiary]] · [[wiki/Future Person Standard|Future Person Standard]] · [[wiki/Million-Year Regulatory Person|Million-Year Regulatory Person]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->