# Unobserved Systems
**Entity class:** Technology, method, or technical system
## Definition
**Unobserved Systems** is parts of an environment whose state is not directly measured and must be inferred, bounded, or left unresolved.
## Relationships
**Related concepts:** [[wiki/Simulated World|Simulated World]] · [[wiki/Observation Infrastructure|Observation Infrastructure]] · [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]] · [[wiki/Inference|Inference]]
**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]]
These links record conceptual dependencies and contrasts. Institutional control, technology transfer, and empirical continuity are tracked as separate relationship types.
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