# Digital Immortality
**Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Culture / Continuity
**Doc Type:** Canonical Concept
**Maturity:** Developed
**Evidence / Concept Status:** Public and regulatory discourse term
## Definition
**Digital Immortality** is the broad idea that data, representations, agents, or reconstructed persons may allow some aspect of an individual to persist indefinitely in digital form.
## Continuity Significance
The term is a public gateway but must be decomposed into archival persistence, replica persistence, executable continuity, and person-level continuity.
## Existing Architecture / Evidence
CNIL explicitly discusses movement from digital death toward digital immortality in postmortem-data foresight.
## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note
Indefinite data persistence is not immortality of consciousness.
## Cinematic Case
[[wiki/The Congress (2013)|The Congress]] separates archival and replica persistence from person-level continuity: the market can keep an image young and generative without preserving the represented person's first-person life.
## Related Ontology
[[wiki/Digital Afterlife|Digital Afterlife]] · [[wiki/Human Digital Remains|Human Digital Remains]] · [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] · [[wiki/Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]] · [[wiki/The Congress (2013)|The Congress]]
## Sources / Provenance
- https://cnil.fr/fr/cahier-ip-n10