# Thermodynamic Incidence of Rights **Domain:** Deep Time / Rights / Energy / Public Finance **Doc Type:** Canonical Wiki Entry **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus coinage ## Definition **Thermodynamic Incidence of Rights** is the mapping of a legal right to the continuing physical resources required to make that right real. ## Why It Matters for Deep Time Continuity For computational persons, rights may require recurring electricity, compute, storage, network access, maintenance, migration, and cooling rather than only legal non-interference. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Digital-mind welfare research explicitly recognizes the potential cost and energy implications of non-deletion rights for large digital populations. ## Deep-Time Continuity Analysis Every positive continuity right should identify the service vector and duty bearer it materially implies. ## Evidentiary Boundary Resource cost informs implementation and budgeting; it does not by itself negate moral or legal status. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Recognition-to-Resource Coupling|Recognition-to-Resource Coupling]] · [[wiki/Status-Triggered Continuity Liability|Status-Triggered Continuity Liability]] · [[wiki/Continuity Finance|Continuity Finance]] · [[wiki/Continuity Service Obligation|Continuity Service Obligation]] ## Sources / Primary Anchors - https://www.mdpi.com/2504-2289/3/1/2 <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING --> ## Canonical Branch [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY ROUTING -->