Personhood without substrate essentialism
What facts should matter when law recognises a Person whose embodiment, cognition or continuity may be distributed across biological and technical systems?
Version 3.0.0Founder-Frozen Publication Edition8 September 2026
Research
A framework built to expose hard questions, not hide them.
Lex-Cybernetica treats future law as a research problem spanning doctrine, philosophy, technology, medicine, governance and social institutions.
Continuity, forks and successor persons
When does restoration preserve identity, when does replication create another Person, and when does a successor relationship arise?
Control without ownership of persons
How should law distinguish ownership of components and intellectual property from impermissible ownership or domination of a recognised Person?
Institutions for uncertain futures
Which courts, registries, review bodies, evidentiary processes and technical experts can make future-law decisions contestable and explainable?
Local functional autonomy and dependence
How should law respond when Essential Functions depend on remote providers, networks, permissions, subscriptions or infrastructure?
Cross-border continuity and recognition
How should identity, Personhood and continuity claims travel across jurisdictions without creating legal voids or duplication?
Research method
Doctrine → challenge → scenario test → controlled revision.
Version 3.0 preserves provenance and separates research evidence from Canon. Scenario work may expose weaknesses, but no outside comment, AI review or fictional outcome changes the framework automatically.
- 1Frame the legal problem.
- 2Separate concepts that should not be mechanically linked.
- 3Draft or identify the applicable doctrine.
- 4Stress-test with cases, science, technical evidence and comparative law.
- 5Record dissent, failure modes and provenance.
- 6Route substantive change through explicit version control.
Research / Canon boundary
The Founder-Frozen Publication Edition remains fixed. Later substantive change requires a separately controlled amendment or successor edition.