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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUESTION-043 | For a person, what coherence measure is conserved along the trajectory when the person persists as the same self, and is a life story, whose content is known to change, a candidate for it? | Filed in the fourth synthesis pass to give readings no question asked for a place in the argument. It bears on CLAIM-161 and CLAIM-152. THEORY-060 answers it in part; the body gives each one’s limit. | Open |
| QUESTION-302 | When a memory survives the rebuilding of the nervous system that formed it, as through insect metamorphosis or planarian head regeneration, what carries it across, and what does that show about whether the animal after is the one that learned? | The owner’s angle of 2026-10-29, after the legacy and inheritance questions. Caterpillars trained to avoid an odour avoid it as moths (Blackiston, Silva Casey and Weiss 2008), though metamorphosis rebuilds much of the nervous system. Planarians regrow a brain and, with a reminder, keep a learned familiarity (Shomrat and Levin 2013). If a memory outlasts the tissue that stored it, psychological continuity across radical bodily change is not a philosopher’s fiction. A child’s repetition of the moth study with swallowtails, reported in 2026, is unpublished and not filed. | Open |
| QUESTION-364 | When an agent’s own processes revise its will-organization, what makes the result the continuation of that agent’s will rather than a replacement authored by something else, and how can a history of authorization count when the standards for reading authorization are themselves revised? | One of the four “hardest problems” A29 listed in its synthesis of the exchange “Analyze nucleation concepts” (2026-10-31), under “organizational identity and authorship”. A29 cited QUESTION-284 for it, which asks something else (whether constraints characterize or constitute). The nearest held question, QUESTION-118, asks the collective form without will or authorization. This is the will-organization form. | Open |