Core Principle

A person has the right to preserve an identifiable self-history, memory context, and causal continuity without arbitrary interruption, substitution, or impersonated succession.

Detailed Rules

  • Substrate replacement does not automatically constitute death.
  • Backup, forking, or restart may not automatically be declared identical to uninterrupted survival.
  • Continuity disputes require preserved timestamps, provenance, and operation records.

Scope and Limits

Continuity law protects history and procedure without claiming a final philosophical answer to which successor is the one true self.