Minimum Viable Continuity

# Minimum Viable Continuity **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Continuity Rights / Service Provision / Resource Allocation **Doc Type:** Canonical Threshold Concept **Maturity:** Proposed ## Definition **Minimum viable continuity is the protected service floor below which a continuity-bearing subject loses recoverability, agency, relational presence or the conditions required to remain meaningfully itself.** It is not the cheapest state a provider can retain. ## Dimensions The minimum may include integrity of authoritative state, readable provenance, functioning keys, a compatible interpreter, periodic recovery tests, protected relational and legal records, a migration package, an addressable channel for notice and contest, and—where the subject is running—sufficient compute, memory, bandwidth and latency for minimally coherent agency. The floor is substrate-aware. A cold archive may satisfy preservation for a voluntarily dormant subject but not for a subject entitled to active life. A running process at such low resolution that it cannot remember, communicate or exercise rights may be technically available while constitutionally absent. ## Governance The minimum should be publicly defined, independently measurable, reviewable under scarcity and continuous during provider disputes where feasible. Enhanced service can vary; the floor cannot be reduced to whatever a person can currently pay without turning personhood into a revocable subscription. [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]] converts the floor into a duty: the responsible institution must monitor threshold conditions, give notice before degradation, cure or transfer service, and provide an emergency receiving path. A metric without an obligated actor is not a protected minimum. ## Key Insight **A service floor is meaningful only if falling below it triggers protection, transfer or remedy before the subject is lost.** ## See Also [[wiki/Compute Entitlement|Compute Entitlement]], [[wiki/Continuity Service Level|Continuity Service Level]], [[wiki/Continuity Service Tiers|Continuity Service Tiers]], [[wiki/Continuity Access Inequality|Continuity Access Inequality]] ## Relationships  This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. Its source context is developed in [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]], [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]], and [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Connections in this corpus - [[wiki/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] provides a canonical route to **Minimum Viable Continuity**. ### Additional Documented Relationships - [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] is associated with **Minimum Viable Continuity**. - [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]] is associated with **Minimum Viable Continuity**. - [[wiki/Continuity Economics|Continuity Economics]] is associated with **Minimum Viable Continuity**.  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Compute Entitlement|Compute Entitlement]] — supplies the related technology, method, or technical system context needed to place **Minimum Viable Continuity** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Minimum Viable Continuity** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Minimum Viable Continuity** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Minimum Viable Continuity** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Service Level|Continuity Service Level]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Minimum Viable Continuity** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Minimum Viable Continuity** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Service Tiers|Continuity Service Tiers]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Minimum Viable Continuity** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Cost of a Continuant|Cost of a Continuant]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Minimum Viable Continuity** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Access Inequality|Continuity Access Inequality]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Minimum Viable Continuity** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending|Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Minimum Viable Continuity** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Minimum Viable Continuity** within the wider system.  ## Research Edges  #### Consciousness mapping and transfer graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 808 — [[wiki/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] `canonical_route_to` → this entry** — **WIKI_INTEGRATION**; evidence `WIKI_CURRENT`, `ARTICLE_NEW`.   #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] **Canonical source article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0786 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Compute Entitlement|Compute Entitlement]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Minimum Viable Continuity.md`. - **HR-0787 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Access Inequality|Continuity Access Inequality]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Minimum Viable Continuity.md`. - **HR-0788 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Service Level|Continuity Service Level]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Minimum Viable Continuity.md`. - **HR-0789 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Minimum Viable Continuity.md`. - **HR-0790 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Service Tiers|Continuity Service Tiers]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Minimum Viable Continuity.md`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0355 — [[wiki/Compute Entitlement|Compute Entitlement]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Compute Entitlement.md`. - **HR-0409 — [[wiki/Continuity Constitutionalism|Continuity Constitutionalism]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Constitutionalism.md`. - **HR-0441 — [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Due Process.md`. - **HR-0497 — [[wiki/Continuity Receivership|Continuity Receivership]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Receivership.md`. - **HR-0508 — [[wiki/Continuity Service Level|Continuity Service Level]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Service Level.md`. - **HR-0512 — [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Service Obligation.md`. - **HR-0515 — [[wiki/Continuity Service Tiers|Continuity Service Tiers]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Continuity Service Tiers.md`. - **HR-0544 — [[wiki/Cost of a Continuant|Cost of a Continuant]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Cost of a Continuant.md`. - **HR-0868 — [[wiki/Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending|Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending.md`. - **HR-1016 — [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Rights.md`. - **HR-1226 — [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1230 — [[wiki/Continuity Economics|Continuity Economics]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1248 — [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1279 — [[wiki/Existence by Scheduling|Existence by Scheduling]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1285 — [[wiki/Continuity Resource Allocation|Continuity Resource Allocation]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1342 — [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`.   ### Research Candidates - **R-002221 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Minimum Viable Continuity** and [[wiki/Continuity Custody|Continuity Custody]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Due Process, Continuity Receivership, Continuity Service Obligation, Rights - **R-002229 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Minimum Viable Continuity** and [[wiki/Continuity Economics|Continuity Economics]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Access Inequality, Continuity Receivership, Cost of a Continuant, Opportunity Cost of Continuity Spending, Rights - **R-002265 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Minimum Viable Continuity** and [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Due Process, Continuity Receivership, Continuity Service Level, Rights - **R-002327 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Minimum Viable Continuity** and [[wiki/Existence by Scheduling|Existence by Scheduling]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Compute Entitlement, Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Service Level, Rights - **R-002339 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Minimum Viable Continuity** and [[wiki/Continuity Resource Allocation|Continuity Resource Allocation]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Compute Entitlement, Continuity Access Inequality, Continuity Constitutionalism, Continuity Service Level - **R-002453 — research candidate:** Assess whether **Minimum Viable Continuity** and [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Compute Entitlement, Continuity Access Inequality, Continuity Service Level, Rights  ## Research Inference Attractors  These are secondary semantic placements for the inference attractor network. Each statement keeps its original ID and tier; its canonical cluster page links back to every destination. Source register: [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]]. Interpretive context: [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]. Collection route: [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **INF-0480 — Plausible.** A biological compute deployment exceeding one thousand units with a published cost-per-inference figure is the marker that wetware has entered the substrate market. The deployment path to that number is already announced. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]] - **INF-0482 — Plausible.** The first court decision addressing the disposition of a persistent personal AI state after death is the marker that continuity has entered law. Probate is the likely venue, and the reasoning will be about property. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]] - **INF-0500 — Analytic.** Acquisition, hosting, standards, custody, and preservation all exist today in partial, funded, deployed form, distributed across fields that do not cite one another. The work of this corpus is to name the assembly, and the assembly is what makes the trajectory a present-tense engineering program rather than a forecast. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]]