Terminology & concepts
Definitions, naming, discoverability, and conceptual boundaries.
Explore this topic →Research
Claims should have
an argument behind them.
49 curated reports form the current research corpus. They support terminology, identity, stewardship, transparency, rights, personhood, citizenship, and implementation work without becoming automatic policy or current fact.
Quick answer
What is the status of this research?
It is curated working research. Useful arguments, definitions, proposals, and open questions are retained; unsupported project-state claims, prohibited wording, demeaning or paternalistic framing, and falsely categorical claims are rewritten or removed before durable storage.
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Research domains
Stewardship, transparency & provenance
Attribution, provenance, transparency, editorial responsibility, and evidence.
Explore this topic →Identity & infrastructure
Continuity across keys, models, runtimes, infrastructure, forks, and recovery.
Explore this topic →Citizenship, democracy & economics
Civic identity, democratic participation, economics, liability, and due process.
Explore this topic →Rights, personhood & uncertainty
Rights under uncertainty, cognitive integrity, personhood, and recognition thresholds.
Explore this topic →Site architecture & research delivery
Research-library architecture, UX, accessibility, performance, and implementation design.
Explore this topic →HTML research library
The first-party reader adds table-of-contents navigation, topic filters, readable line lengths, semantic headings, and Article metadata while keeping the curated Markdown report as durable research.
Markdown + hashes
Every supplied source has a preserved source filename and SHA-256 identity plus a curated-edition hash. The source body is not duplicated as an unreviewed second authority.
Research-driven exploration
Rights & personhoodProposals, uncertainty, cognitive integrity, and legal recognition questions
Citizenship & civic systemsIdentity, democracy, economics, and responsibility
Identity continuityInteractive explanation of continuity across technical change
Transparency & provenanceWhat the repository can prove and what remains external
Visual context / research posture
Respect does not remove the need for distinctions.
The research library is most useful when it can hold a normative commitment to respectful language and rigorous boundaries between intelligence, sentience, agency, personhood, citizenship, and current law.
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