# 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]]. - **Canonical source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. - **Collection relationship:** The entry belongs to [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] and the person-scale persistence questions maintained by [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]]. <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> - **Edge source route:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] connects this topic to exact Annual Question passages promoted into the Simple Reminders archive. ## Epistemic boundary Inclusion in the continuity stack records a documented component, method, model, or analytic distinction; it leaves whole-person transfer, subjective continuity, or numerical identity unresolved. ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]], **XVI. The remaining miracle** provides the narrative context for **Scale of Capture**: The first is scale of capture. <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “Technology is fairly good at controlling external reality to promote our real biological fitness, but it's even better at delivering fake fitness — subjective cues of survival and reproduction, without the real-world effects.” > **— Geoffrey Miller**, *2006, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?”* [[reminders/Capture/Technology Delivers Fake Fitness Better Than Real Fitness by Geoffrey Miller|Technology Delivers Fake Fitness Better Than Real Fitness by Geoffrey Miller]] > “Like many others, I mistakenly interpreted a technical structure as a metaphor for human liberty. In recent years, we have seen clear signs that while the Net may be a decentralized communications system, its technical and commercial workings actually promote the centralization of power and control.” > **— Nicholas G. Carr**, *2008, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT? WHY?”* [[reminders/Capture/A Technical Structure Is Not a Metaphor for Liberty by Nicholas G. Carr|A Technical Structure Is Not a Metaphor for Liberty by Nicholas G. Carr]] > “What will be the use of 99% of humanity for the 1%?” > **— David Haig**, *2018, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT IS THE LAST QUESTION?”* [[reminders/Capture/What Will Be the Use of the Ninety-Nine Percent by David Haig|What Will Be the Use of the Ninety-Nine Percent by David Haig]]