Recoverable Continuity as a Structural Stability Constraint in Dynamical Cognitive Systems

This paper examines subject persistence through the lens of recoverable continuity, framing consciousness as a temporally structured process rather than a static entity. It formalizes the conditions under which experiential succession can be coherently attributed to a continuing subject, distinguishing lawful inheritance of experiential structure from mere behavioral or functional similarity. By analyzing path dependence, replication scenarios, and structural breakdown, the framework argues that coherent subject attribution requires compositional closure of experiential inheritance. Recoverable continuity is presented as a necessary structural constraint for intelligible accounts of conscious persistence.