Legal Identity After Substrate Transition

# Legal Identity After Substrate Transition **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Personhood / Citizenship **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Major unresolved legal transition ## Definition **Legal Identity After Substrate Transition** is the unresolved problem of whether and how a biological person's recognized legal identity could continue, descend, or be succeeded by a computational entity after biological death or migration. ## Continuity Significance It is the missing bridge between civil-registration identity and continuity citizenship. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence No jurisdiction identified provides a general mechanism for transferring natural-person legal identity to a computational continuant. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Do not infer this right from digital identity wallets or estate law. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Substrate Transition Event|Substrate Transition Event]] · [[wiki/Continuity Citizenship|Continuity Citizenship]] · [[wiki/Digital Identity Succession|Digital Identity Succession]] · [[wiki/Successor Standing|Successor Standing]] · [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]]  ## Deep-Time Continuity Interface This node is audited through [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] for future control-surface conversion, ontological drift, succession, irreversibility, due process, and resource incidence. The backlink records analytical relevance; it does not establish continuity intent in the present rule or institution.  ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts  > "If these things are true it doesn't matter if we like them or not." > **— Susan Blackmore**, *Wired interview (2008), excerpt candidate* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Wired interview (2008), excerpt candidate.* [[reminders/unverified/Reality Does Not Care Whether We Like It by Susan Blackmore|Reality Does Not Care Whether We Like It by Susan Blackmore]] > "The interpreter creates the illusion of a unified self." > **— Michael Gazzaniga**, *Split-brain research writings, compressed candidate wording* *Verification Status: Unverified — exact wording/source has not yet been independently confirmed against a primary source; source clue: Split-brain research writings, compressed candidate wording.* [[reminders/unverified/The Unified Self May Be an Illusion by Michael Gazzaniga|The Unified Self May Be an Illusion by Michael Gazzaniga]]