Personal Continuity Ontology

# Personal Continuity Ontology **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Ontology / Identity / Continuity Studies **Doc Type:** Research Concept Node **Maturity:** Conceptual and Research-Driven **Related:** [[wiki/Psychological Continuity|Psychological Continuity]], [[Autobiographical Memory]], [[Object-Property-Context Format]], [[Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]] --- ## Definition A **personal continuity ontology** is a formal representation of the entities, relations, states, transitions, and contexts through which a person remains identifiable across change. It must represent embodiment, temporality, memory, identity claims, discontinuity, recovery, and reconciliation rather than treating continuity as static sameness. ## Architectural role The concept provides a semantic layer above raw anatomy and signal capture. It asks what relationships must remain intelligible for a record to describe one evolving life rather than a sequence of disconnected states. ## Neurotech cluster route **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Source articles:** [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] ## Relationships [[wiki/Personal Continuity Ontology|Personal Continuity Ontology]] is related to [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] through [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]].  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 Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]], [[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 **Personal Continuity Ontology**. ### Additional Documented Relationships - [[wiki/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] provides a canonical route to **Personal Continuity Ontology**.  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Autobiographical Memory|Autobiographical Memory]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Personal Continuity Ontology** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Longitudinal Person Model|Longitudinal Person Model]] — supplies the related technology, method, or technical system context needed to place **Personal Continuity Ontology** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] — supplies the related technology, method, or technical system context needed to place **Personal Continuity Ontology** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **Personal Continuity Ontology** within the wider system.  ## Related Work in the Corpus  - In [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]], ****1\. The Ontological and Physiological Basis of Continuity Storage**** provides the narrative context for **Personal Continuity Ontology**: Concept route: personal continuity ontology · autobiographical memory · Object-Property-Context format · episode graph · engram · synaptic ensemble · long-term memory substrate · whole brain emulation · aldehyde-stabilized…  ## 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 807 — [[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-0892 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Autobiographical Memory|Autobiographical Memory]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Personal Continuity Ontology.md`. - **HR-0893 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure|Consciousness Continuity Infrastructure]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Personal Continuity Ontology.md`. - **HR-0894 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Personal Continuity Ontology|Personal Continuity Ontology]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Personal Continuity Ontology.md`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0290 — [[wiki/Autobiographical Memory|Autobiographical Memory]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Autobiographical Memory.md`. - **HR-0744 — [[wiki/Longitudinal Person Model|Longitudinal Person Model]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Longitudinal Person Model.md`. - **HR-0830 — [[wiki/Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture|Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Neural Interfaces and Continuity Architecture.md`. - **HR-0894 — [[wiki/Personal Continuity Ontology|Personal Continuity Ontology]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Personal Continuity Ontology.md`.