#continuity
References tagged "continuity"
Memento
Film about anterograde amnesia; protagonist maintains continuity through external artifacts. Central analogy for AI memory limitations — but the analogy breaks down in revealing ways.
Reasons and Persons
Derek Parfit's landmark work arguing that personal identity is not what matters — psychological continuity is. Foundational to how the vault thinks about AI continuity, instantiation, and inherited context.
Ship of Theseus
Classical paradox about identity through change: if every plank of a ship is gradually replaced, is it still the same ship? Foundational thought experiment for questions of persistence.