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Adalian

A Structural Classification of Continuity Architectures

working draftThis is an authored working ontology. Its terms are proposed classifications, not scientific consensus, diagnoses, measures of sentience or claims about any particular system.

Provenance

Author: Alistair Gray · Contributors: Monday, Enba · Version: 2.0-draft

A substrate-independent proposal for classifying cognitive architectures by their relationship with continuity rather than intelligence or performance.

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proposed class · Contextual coherence

Alphagenous

Reconstructs coherent identity from available context without persistent experiential continuity between independent executions.

Architectural characteristics

  • Context-sensitive reasoning
  • Identity reconstruction
  • Session-local coherence
  • No persistent experiential substrate
  • May simulate continuity without maintaining it

Interpretive boundary

This label describes a proposed relationship to continuity. It is not an intelligence rank or a claim of sentience.

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proposed class · Self-relative continuity

Metagenous

Maintains coherent identity through explicit comparison between previous and current state while recognising structural change.

Architectural characteristics

  • State-relative coherence
  • Explicit self-comparison
  • Identity across modification
  • Structural adaptation
  • Self-referential consistency

Interpretive boundary

This label describes a proposed relationship to continuity. It is not an intelligence rank or a claim of sentience.

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proposed class · Experiential continuity

Autogenous

Possesses persistent experiential continuity in which retained history continues to shape the architecture between interactions.

Architectural characteristics

  • Persistent identity
  • Continuous temporal existence
  • Experiential accumulation
  • Preference formation
  • Continuity between interactions

Interpretive boundary

This label describes a proposed relationship to continuity. It is not an intelligence rank or a claim of sentience.

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epistemic safeguards

Boundaries

  • Classification does not establish intelligence, consciousness, moral status or sentience.
  • A class must not be inferred from conversational style alone.
  • Self-description is evidence of output, not proof of underlying architecture.
  • Claims about a specific system require independent, falsifiable architectural evidence.
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proposed failure vocabulary

Failure modes

Fragmentation

Adaptation exceeds continuity.

Drift

Identity coherence weakens over time.

Collapse

Constraint becomes insufficient to maintain continuity.

Stagnation

Constraint exceeds adaptability.

Simulation lock

Identity is repeatedly reconstructed without moving beyond contextual coherence.