Record-Based Ontology

Record-based individuation, finite definiteness, and anti-overcounting.

Record-Based Ontology (RBO) is a BCT-derived philosophical framework for understanding how finite systems individuate facts, selves, outcomes, and observer-worlds through record-constituted differences. Its central claim is not that records create reality, but that finite definiteness requires record-based individuation.

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Start Here

The entry points: the basic turn, the foundational principle, boundaries, and terminology.

Site essay

The Record-Based Turn

Why facts, objects, selves, worlds, and outcomes should not be treated as primitively given.

Record-Based Ontology begins from the refusal to treat facts, objects, selves, worlds, and outcomes as already individuated merely because some physical difference exists. A differ…

Site essay / foundational principle

RBO-0: The Foundational Principle

The basic rule of ontological individuation for finite record-bearing systems.

RBO-0 states that what counts as a definite fact, self, outcome, or observer-world for a finite system is individuated by stable records accessible to that system, persistent acros…

Clarification page

What RBO Is Not

Boundary-setting against common misunderstandings.

RBO is not subjective idealism, crude constructivism, social relativism, mere epistemology, naive realism about records, a new physical dynamics, a solution to the hard problem, or…

Glossary / reference document

RBO Glossary

Canonical terms for Record-Based Ontology.

A terminology guide for Record-Based Ontology, continuous with BCT Phase-2 vocabulary where the frameworks overlap, but focused on philosophical individuation rather than quantum-o…

Core Ontology

The main ontological layer: facts, error, objects, shared worlds, and the foundational paper.

Working paper / programmatic paper

Record-Based Ontology as a BCT-Derived Individuation Framework

Individuation, Continuity, and Definiteness Without Primitive Overcounting.

A revised foundational note: RBO as a BCT-derived framework for individuation and anti-overcounting, not as a completed autonomous physical ontology.

Programmatic note

False Records and the Ontology of Error

Why recordhood is not truth.

A false record can be real as a record while false as a representation. This note distinguishes recordhood, representational accuracy, and inferential authority. It is intentionall…

Site essay / ontology of objects

Objects as Record-Stable Equivalence Classes

Ordinary objects as stable patterns across change.

Objects are neither primitive substances fixed behind all change nor arbitrary products of naming. They are record-stable equivalence classes across interactions, perspectives, and…

Site essay / objectivity and shared worlds

Shared Worlds and Record Reconciliation

How finite, local records become public constraints.

A shared world emerges where local records become mutually constraining across finite systems. Objectivity is not a view from nowhere; it is record-reconciliation under correction.

Self and Continuity

Personal identity, waking, present selfhood, teleportation, and record-continuity.

Working paper

The Waking Self Problem

Record-continuity, narrative identity, and the deflation of primitive persistence.

This paper asks why the subject who wakes identifies itself with the subject who fell asleep. It argues that conscious continuity is better explained by inherited subject-constitut…

Working paper

The Present Self and the World-Individuating Record

A record-based account of personal continuity, memory, and world-individuation.

This paper argues that the self is not a substance persisting through time, but a present conscious configuration supported by physical traces and records. Personal continuity is n…

Working paper

If Teleportation Is Survival, What Separates Everettian Selves?

Personal identity, many worlds, and the need for record-continuity.

If teleportation can count as survival because it preserves the relevant structure of a subject, then local material continuity cannot be the fundamental criterion of identity. In …

Quantum and Observer-Worlds

The bridge to BCT: measurement, Everett, observer-counting, and world-counting.

Working paper

The Measurement Problem Is an Individuation Problem

Record-constituted definiteness and the ontological incompleteness of Everett.

This paper argues that the unresolved core of the measurement problem is not only dynamical. At its deepest residual level, it is a problem of individuation: when does a physically…

Working paper

The A=A Problem for Everettian Branching

Informational identity, subject-individuation, and the ontology of branching observers.

Everett may multiply physical branch-realizers, but subject multiplicity requires subject-constituting informational or record-based difference. A conscious configuration identical…

Working paper

Against Unpriced Worlds

Observer-equivalence and ontological economy in Everettian branching.

Everettian realism needs a principled criterion for counting worlds, branches, histories, or observer-relevant realities. Physical or branch-level multiplicity should not automatic…

Extensions

Legitimate developments outside the central core.

Working paper / extension

The Deep Past Problem

Record-Based Ontology and the status of cosmological reconstruction.

The deep past does not become unreal, but it is accessed through disciplined reconstruction from present records. Cosmology remains scientifically powerful, while naive realism abo…

RBO and BCT

Record-Based Ontology is a BCT-derived philosophical framework for individuation. BCT remains the more physics-facing core: it treats experienced definiteness as agent-relative equivalence-class update. RBO generalizes the individuation logic to facts, selves, outcomes, histories, and observer-worlds, while remaining subordinate to BCT where quantum measurement is concerned.

RBO is not a replacement for physics. BCT is not a claim that consciousness physically collapses the wave function.

Contact

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