World Shutdown Due Process

# World Shutdown Due Process **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Domain:** Rights / Runtime Governance / Synthetic Populations **Doc Type:** Canonical Rights Principle **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]], [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]], [[wiki/World Simulation (Control Substrate)|World Simulation]] --- ## Definition **World Shutdown Due Process** is the requirement that a custodian assess standing, persistence, reversibility, notice, representation, transfer and restoration before suspending or terminating a runtime that may contain subjects. ## Context Ordinary software retirement becomes a different constitutional act when the process may contain an inhabited jurisdiction. Depending on state persistence and restoration mechanics, shutdown could mean pause, mass unconsciousness, irreversible death or civilizational destruction. The doctrine does not require treating every simulation as inhabited. It requires a credible inquiry before irreversible action when there is material evidence of subjects with memory, preferences, relationships or self-preservation. ## Minimum Procedure - determine whether candidate subjects exist; - distinguish reversible suspension from destructive termination; - provide notice and representation where possible; - preserve state and provenance; - assess migration or successor-host options; and - subject the runtime custodian's decision to independent review. ## Key Insight **The stronger the evidence that a runtime contains subjects, the less legitimate unilateral shutdown becomes.** ## Sources / Provenance - Canonicalized from [[wiki/The Thirteenth Floor (1999)|The Thirteenth Floor]], [[articles/Uploading Is Imminent|Uploading Is Imminent]] and existing continuity due-process doctrine. ## See Also [[wiki/Hosting Provider of Last Resort|Hosting Provider of Last Resort]], [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]], [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] ## Relationships  This entry is routed through [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]], [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]], and [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]]. Its source context is developed in [[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]] and [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]]. Status-qualified source edges are preserved in the terminal Research Edges section. ### Additional Documented Relationships - [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] is associated with **World Shutdown Due Process**. - [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] is associated with **World Shutdown Due Process**. - [[wiki/Continuity Orphan|Continuity Orphan]] is associated with **World Shutdown Due Process**.  ## Read First in the Wiki  - [[wiki/Reconstructive World Simulation|Reconstructive World Simulation]] — supplies the related technology, method, or technical system context needed to place **World Shutdown Due Process** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Recursive World-Building|Recursive World-Building]] — supplies the related place or jurisdiction context needed to place **World Shutdown Due Process** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **World Shutdown Due Process** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **World Shutdown Due Process** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **World Shutdown Due Process** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **World Shutdown Due Process** within the wider system. - [[wiki/Hosting Provider of Last Resort|Hosting Provider of Last Resort]] — supplies the related concept or analytic term context needed to place **World Shutdown Due Process** within the wider system.  ## Research Edges  #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **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]] **Related acquisition source:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Mind Uploading and AI Host-Residual Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-1175 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Contract|Continuity Contract]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `World Shutdown Due Process.md`. - **HR-1176 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Continuity Due Process|Continuity Due Process]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `World Shutdown Due Process.md`. - **HR-1177 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Hosting Provider of Last Resort|Hosting Provider of Last Resort]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `World Shutdown Due Process.md`. - **HR-1178 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `World Shutdown Due Process.md`. - **HR-1179 — `wiki_links_to` → [[wiki/Rights|Rights]]** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `World Shutdown Due Process.md`. - **HR-1268 — `should_crosslink_with` → [[wiki/World-Builder Distinction|World-Builder Distinction]]** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. #### Incoming typed edges - **HR-0961 — [[wiki/Reconstructive World Simulation|Reconstructive World Simulation]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Reconstructive World Simulation.md`. - **HR-0968 — [[wiki/Recursive World-Building|Recursive World-Building]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Recursive World-Building.md`. - **HR-0988 — [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Residual Sovereign.md`. - **HR-1027 — [[wiki/Rights|Rights]] `wiki_links_to` → this entry** — **EXISTING WIKI EDGE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Direct internal link currently present in `Rights.md`. - **HR-1256 — [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1315 — [[wiki/Continuity Orphan|Continuity Orphan]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. - **HR-1345 — [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] `should_crosslink_with` → this entry** — **RESEARCH CANDIDATE**; evidence `WIKI_ARCHIVE`.   ### Research Candidates - **R-002281 — research candidate:** Assess whether **World Shutdown Due Process** and [[wiki/Reconstructed Person|Reconstructed Person]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (5): Continuity Contract, Hosting Provider of Last Resort, Reconstructive World Simulation, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002304 — research candidate:** Assess whether **World Shutdown Due Process** and [[wiki/World-Builder Distinction|World-Builder Distinction]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Reconstructive World Simulation, Recursive World-Building, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002399 — research candidate:** Assess whether **World Shutdown Due Process** and [[wiki/Continuity Orphan|Continuity Orphan]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Contract, Hosting Provider of Last Resort, Residual Sovereign, Rights - **R-002459 — research candidate:** Assess whether **World Shutdown Due Process** and [[wiki/Continuity Election|Continuity Election]] warrant reciprocal reader-facing prose. Settlement requires a source that documents the relationship directly. Suggested missing reciprocal/cross-thread edge. Shared internal mediators (4): Continuity Contract, Continuity Due Process, Residual Sovereign, Rights