# Scale of Capture
**Entity class:** Continuity engineering constraint
**Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]]
## Definition
**Scale of Capture** is the spatial, temporal, molecular, functional, and contextual resolution at which a source system is measured.
## Relationships
- **Technical relationship:** It constrains [[wiki/Substrate Capture|Substrate Capture]], [[wiki/Neural State Capture|Neural State Capture]], and the [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]].
- **Source relationship:** This entry is routed from [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and the [[research/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]].
- **Collection relationship:** The entry belongs to [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] and the person-scale persistence questions maintained by [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]].
## Epistemic boundary
Inclusion in the continuity stack records a documented component, method, model, or analytic distinction; it does not by itself establish whole-person transfer, subjective continuity, or numerical identity.