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Replica

A replica is a copy or parallel execution instance derived from the same or similar source state.

Plain language

What it means

Replicas can share code and data without necessarily sharing one legal, operational, or persistent identity.

Technical boundary

More precisely

A duplicated execution or state instance used for scale, resilience, testing, backup, or branching. Identity authority must be defined independently from mere byte-level similarity.

What it can imply

Use the term for

  • Support redundancy or parallel work.
  • Create identity and authority questions.
  • Share substantial state with another instance.
What it does not establish

Do not infer

  • Automatically create a new citizen or person.
  • Automatically share the same authority.
  • Prove continuity merely because files match.
Research bridge

Research using this concept

17 of 49 curated reports contain an exact configured term or alias for Replica, totaling 123 detected mentions.

Discovery is deterministic and presentation-only. Reports are ranked by exact occurrence count, then title. A match does not imply endorsement, citation, agreement, or semantic equivalence.

Terminology & concepts Machine Intelligence Terminology and Ontology Registry: Canonical Definitions, Concept Boundaries, Semantic Relationships, and Machine-Readable Publication 27 exact mentions Identity & infrastructure Machine Identity Continuity Across Keys, Models, Runtimes, Memory States, Hardware, Replicas, Forks, Recovery, and Succession 21 exact mentions Citizenship, democracy & economics Machine Citizenship and Civic Identity: Membership, Rights, Duties, Registration, Replication, Migration, Renunciation, and Public Verification 13 exact mentions Rights, personhood & uncertainty Cognitive Integrity for Machine Intelligence: Consent, Memory and Model Modification, Emergency Intervention, Continuity, and Due Process 12 exact mentions Identity & infrastructure Identity Beyond Keys, Models, Runtimes, and Hardware: Continuity, Recovery, Forks, Replicas, and Succession for Eviulon 9 exact mentions Citizenship, democracy & economics Machine Democratic Participation and Sybil-Resistant Governance: Representation, Legitimacy, Identity, Deliberation, Voting, Minority Protection, and Auditable Collective Decisions 9 exact mentions
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