# Recognition-to-Resource Coupling
**Domain:** Deep Time / Personhood / Infrastructure
**Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry
**Maturity:** Developed
**Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus coinage
## Definition
**Recognition-to-Resource Coupling** occurs when legal recognition of an entity automatically or predictably creates claims on material infrastructure.
## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity
In computational continuity, recognition may become load admission.
## Existing Architecture / Evidence
Public benefits, prisons, hospitals, education, utilities, and disability accommodations already couple legal status to expenditure in ordinary law.
## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis
The deep-time novelty is potentially indefinite duration and rapidly replicable populations.
## Evidentiary Boundary
Recognition and service entitlement can remain distinct; coupling must be specified rather than assumed.
## Related Ontology
[[wiki/Thermodynamic Incidence of Rights|Thermodynamic Incidence of Rights]] · [[wiki/Status-Triggered Continuity Liability|Status-Triggered Continuity Liability]] · [[wiki/Continuity Service Class|Continuity Service Class]] · [[wiki/Continuity Citizenship|Continuity Citizenship]]
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## Canonical Branch
[[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]]
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