Identity, Persistence, and Theseus-Class Transformations
M-E3-05
structural canonical
ontology modality reality
External: philosophical foundational debate
τ response: structurally constrained
When does an entity remain the same through replacement, transformation, repair, narrative revision, or phase change?
Current τ response
See the paired Identity, Persistence, and Theseus-Class Transformations — Challenge Response on the Results lane for the program's current response status, registry evidence, verification route, and external-review boundary.
Current status: structurally constrained.
Challenge statement
When does an entity remain the same through replacement, transformation, repair, narrative revision, or phase change?
Why this challenge is in the ledger
Tests whether τ’s address persistence gives a non-arbitrary criterion of sameness.
Tests whether τ’s address persistence gives a non-arbitrary criterion of sameness.
τ-facing burden
Route through three-level equality, identity slippage, address persistence.
First reviewer questions
- Does τ produce extensional results for identity, persistence, and theseus-class transformations?
- Are the τ register routings genuinely informative or merely renaming?
- What external philosophical review would settle the open questions?
Source anchors
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