Topics — What a work is about. Nucleation holds whatever reading the owner files here, whether or not an Anthology of the SOTA topic could also hold it; instruction for ML practice belongs to the anthology (ADR-048). The words are seeded from the clusters the reading-time triage of 2026-09-25 found, and grow by decision.
Personhood — what a person is and what makes one persist — personal identity over time, psychological continuity and what matters in survival, persons as bearers of reasons, rights and responsibility. Not the self, which is self (group: philosophy; ADR-024).
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| # | Title | Summary | Status |
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| CLAIM-161 v2 | A system persists as the same self over an interval when a coherence measure is approximately conserved along its own trajectory, not merely matched by some map between its states | Dual-filed from MOM-CLM-153 (ADR-037). The corpus’s selfhood condition, that some map φ preserves a coherence score γ, is satisfied by any two systems with similar scores. Requiring the map to be the system’s own evolution Φ_Δt makes selfhood approximate conservation of γ along the trajectory: γ is an approximate first integral, and the defect is a number. Proposed here because γ is unspecified. | Proposed |
| CLAIM-393 | Ordinary and legal attributions of agency to an artifact cannot serve as the independent marks that would defeat the record’s agency test, because they turn on whether its mechanism is understood: a known mechanism invites “This is all just programmed!”, an inscrutable one invites fear, whatever the description lengths | From Boyle’s “inscrutability paradox” in The Line (LIT-1288, read in NOTE-1014): if an apparently general AI comes from well-understood programming, people will doubt it has autonomous consciousness, since it is “merely doing or saying that which we have programmed it to do”; if its workings are inscrutable, they will find it “more mysterious and potentially more threatening” (p. 30; pp. 54, 246, 272). CLAIM-174’s defeater counts a test-passing factor that is “by independent marks, not an agent”. For artifacts, the marks to hand, public and legal judgement, are not independent of what is known about the mechanism. The objection does not say CLAIM-174’s test is wrong, only that this route to defeating it is not open. | Proposed |