# Digital Mind Demography **Domain:** Deep Time / Demography / Digital Persons **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Emerging research field / corpus synthesis ## Definition **Digital Mind Demography** studies populations of potentially sentient or rights-bearing computational minds, including creation, persistence, dormancy, copying, forking, death, migration, and differential execution rates. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity Ordinary demography assumes biological reproduction and finite lifespans. Digital populations may not. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Recent expert forecasting on digital minds explicitly considers rapid population growth and competition over compute, energy, and space. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis The field should track active persons, dormant state, forks, merged identities, and service classes separately. ## Evidentiary Boundary Forecasts are speculative and highly dependent on unsettled personhood criteria. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Continuity Demography|Continuity Demography]] · [[wiki/Forking as Reproduction|Forking as Reproduction]] · [[wiki/Instance Count Governance|Instance Count Governance]] · [[wiki/Continuity Carrying Capacity|Continuity Carrying Capacity]] ## Sources / Primary Anchors - https://digitalminds.report/forecasting-2025/ <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->