minimum causally sufficient residual

# minimum causally sufficient residual **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] ## Definition The **minimum causally sufficient residual** is the smallest set of person-specific variables that, when joined to an adequate [[wiki/reusable human prior|Reusable Human Prior]] and [[wiki/Receiving Substrate|Receiving Substrate]], would reproduce the target individual's identity-bearing causal organization. It may require some combination of connectomic structure, synaptic strengths, active neural state, glial organization, receptor trafficking, local dendritic RNA, epigenomic context, myelination, neuromodulatory state, autobiographical memory, relational history, and the person's [[wiki/transform function|transform function]]. Its size and contents are unknown; determining them is the core of the [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]]. ## 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. ### Key Relationships - **Minimum Causally Sufficient Residual** is associated with [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]]. - **Minimum Causally Sufficient Residual** is associated with [[wiki/person-specific residual|Person-Specific Residual]]. - The source corpus interprets the relationship this way: [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]] is associated with **minimum causally sufficient residual**.  ## Related Work in the Corpus  - 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]], **XVIII. The final compression** provides the narrative context for **minimum causally sufficient residual**: The relevant quantity was never how much information exists in a brain. - In [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]], **II. The host is reusable; the person is the delta** provides the narrative context for **minimum causally sufficient residual**: This is where the State Sufficiency Problem becomes the organizing question of the entire field.  ## Research Edges  #### Consciousness mapping and transfer graph patch — 2026-09-10 **Collections:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] · [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] **Relationship source:** [[research/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph - 2026-09-10|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer Ecosystem Relationship Graph — 2026-09-10]] **Related source articles:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[articles/The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards|The Architecture of Continuity and Emerging Neuroinformatics Standards]] · [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] #### Incoming typed edges - **Edge 637 — [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]] `asks_for` → this entry** — **ARTICLE_ANALYTIC**; evidence `ARTICLE_NEW`. Core architecture of the rebuilt article; treat as synthesis unless separately verified.   #### Host–residual infrastructure patch — 2026-09-10 **Resolved aliases:** `Minimum Causally Sufficient Residual` **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]] #### Host-infrastructure integration Child of State Sufficiency Problem; unknown minimum state that must be captured. #### Outgoing typed edges - **HR-0042 — `specializes` → [[wiki/State Sufficiency Problem|State Sufficiency Problem]]** — **CORPUS ARCHITECTURE**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Core host/residual architecture from article and continuity wiki. - **HR-0043 — `bounds` → [[wiki/person-specific residual|Person-Specific Residual]]** — **CORPUS ARCHITECTURE**; evidence `ARTICLE`, `WIKI_ARCHIVE`. Core host/residual architecture from article and continuity wiki.  ## Research Inferences  These entries translate the forward-looking register in [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]] into ordinary wiki prose. The tier labels apply to the inference, not automatically to every factual anchor inside it. The interpretive frame comes from [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[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]]. Collection route: [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **INF-0203 — Unresolved.** The smallest state that reproduces a specific person's behavior and continuity of experience has no established size, and every claim about uploading feasibility is a hidden estimate of it. Resolution comes from progressive ablation studies on emulated animals, not from argument.  ## Research Inference Attractors  These are secondary semantic placements for the inference attractor network. Each statement keeps its original ID and tier; its canonical cluster page links back to every destination. Source register: [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]]. Interpretive context: [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[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]]. Collection route: [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **INF-0133 — Plausible.** Emulation need not simulate every ion channel if a compressed model reproduces the input-output behavior of each cell class. Determining the minimum sufficient abstraction is the central scientific question of uploading, and it is answerable empirically on small nervous systems now. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Whole-Brain Emulation|Whole-Brain Emulation]] - **INF-0139 — Analytic.** Every increment of biological detail multiplies compute cost, so emulation is a negotiation between fidelity and affordability. The negotiated settlement point will be set by what a paying party considers sufficient, which makes the definition of "enough person" a commercial decision. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Whole-Brain Emulation|Whole-Brain Emulation]] - **INF-0146 — Plausible.** A captured state that cannot yet be run is not a failure but a deferral, provided the capture is sufficient and the format survives. Deferred execution reframes preservation as a bet on future compute rather than on present capability. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Whole-Brain Emulation|Whole-Brain Emulation]] - **INF-0213 — Analytic.** Distinguishing a behavioral proxy from a causally continuous person requires a test the proxy cannot pass, and no such test is currently specified. Specifying one is urgent precisely because proxies will be commercially available and emotionally satisfying before the distinction matters legally. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Host–Residual Architecture|host-residual architecture]] - **INF-0214 — Plausible.** Continuous capture of a person's sensory stream, communications, and decisions accumulates the training corpus for their own residual without any invasive procedure. The cheapest path to a person-specific model runs through ordinary consumer telemetry, and it is already partially collected. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Host–Residual Architecture|host-residual architecture]] - **INF-0225 — Plausible.** If the residual format is open and documented, hosts compete on quality; if proprietary, the first mover holds every customer permanently. This is the same fight as document formats and messaging protocols, with the same dynamics and vastly higher stakes. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Host–Residual Architecture|host-residual architecture]]  ## Linked News Entries - [[news/Human Brain Grows from Two Ancient Nervous Systems|Human Brain Grows from Two Ancient Nervous Systems]] — the two-progenitor finding raises the question of whether the minimum sufficient set differs across the two developmental domains.