Identity Non Conservation

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Authors: Amos Maley
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Abstract

This paper establishes that identity is not a conserved quantity within admissible local descriptions once standing preservation and admissibility are enforced. The analysis is eliminative: it shows that treating identity as globally conserved leads to equivalence collapse, illicit scope transport, or duplication of enforcement under composition. Identity is instead classified as a standing-relative construct whose persistence is conditional and local. The paper demonstrates that admissible interaction necessarily permits identity change within tightly constrained bounds, and that enforcing strict identity conservation exceeds what admissibility allows. Attempts to preserve identity absolutely are shown to rely on representational reification rather than standing-preserving structure. The paper introduces no new primitives and proposes no mechanisms. Its contribution is boundary-setting: it clarifies why identity non-conservation is a structural feature of admissible interiors, and why identity can persist only conditionally rather than as an invariant quantity.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Philosophy and Theoretical Science Complex Systems and Dynamics Logic Reasoning and Knowledge

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
7 February 2026