# Deep-Time Personhood Review **Domain:** Deep Time / Personhood / Due Process **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Future legal architecture ## Definition **Deep-Time Personhood Review** is a periodic or event-triggered process for reassessing the legal and moral status of digital entities as capabilities, continuity evidence, and social relationships change over time. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity Static classification is especially dangerous under Ontological Drift. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Periodic review exists in other legal contexts where status, capacity, or risk changes. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis Review may be triggered by independent memory, self-modeling, sustained preferences, welfare indicators, or claims to continuity. ## Evidentiary Boundary The process is proposed and should not substitute for scientific uncertainty with legal certainty. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Ontological Status Review Before Deletion|Ontological Status Review Before Deletion]] · [[wiki/Object-to-Subject Transition|Object-to-Subject Transition]] · [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]] · [[wiki/Metaphysical Abstention|Metaphysical Abstention]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->