# Record-Based Ontology (RBO)

Author: Federico Batori
Canonical site: https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/
Linked BCT site: https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/

## Project summary
Record-Based Ontology (RBO) is a BCT-derived philosophical framework for record-based individuation, finite definiteness, and anti-overcounting. Its central claim is not that records create reality ex nihilo, but that finite definiteness requires record-constituted differences that become accessible, persistent, and update-constraining for finite systems.

BCT (Bit-Collapse Theory) remains the physics-facing core. RBO is a BCT-derived framework that generalizes BCT's individuation logic to facts, selves, outcomes, false records, and observer-worlds. RBO should not be read as a completed autonomous physical ontology or as a replacement for BCT.

## Important boundaries
- RBO is not subjective idealism.
- RBO is not crude constructivism.
- RBO is not social relativism.
- RBO is not a claim that consciousness physically collapses the wave function.
- RBO is not a replacement for physics.
- RBO distinguishes recordhood from truth: a false record can be real as a record while false as a representation.

## Recommended reading order
1. The Record-Based Turn: https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/record-based-turn.html
2. RBO-0: https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/rbo-0-foundational-principle.html
3. What RBO Is Not: https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/what-rbo-is-not.html
4. RBO foundational paper: https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/rbo-individuation-continuity-definiteness.html
5. The Measurement Problem Is an Individuation Problem: https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/measurement-problem-individuation.html

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## Content map
- The Record-Based Turn (Site essay, Start Here): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/record-based-turn.html
- RBO-0: The Foundational Principle (Site essay / foundational principle, Start Here): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/rbo-0-foundational-principle.html
- What RBO Is Not (Clarification page, Start Here): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/what-rbo-is-not.html
- RBO Glossary (Glossary / reference document, Start Here): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/rbo-glossary.html
- Record-Based Ontology as a BCT-Derived Individuation Framework (Working paper / programmatic paper (reframed), Core Ontology): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/rbo-individuation-continuity-definiteness.html
- False Records and the Ontology of Error (Programmatic note, Core Ontology): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/false-records-ontology-error.html
- Objects as Record-Stable Equivalence Classes (Site essay / ontology of objects, Core Ontology): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/objects-record-stable-equivalence-classes.html
- Shared Worlds and Record Reconciliation (Site essay / objectivity and shared worlds, Core Ontology): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/shared-worlds-record-reconciliation.html
- The Waking Self Problem (Working paper, Self and Continuity): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/waking-self-problem.html
- The Present Self and the World-Individuating Record (Working paper, Self and Continuity): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/present-self-world-individuating-record.html
- If Teleportation Is Survival, What Separates Everettian Selves? (Working paper, Self and Continuity): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/teleportation-everettian-selves.html
- The Measurement Problem Is an Individuation Problem (Working paper, Quantum and Observer-Worlds): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/measurement-problem-individuation.html
- The A=A Problem for Everettian Branching (Working paper, Quantum and Observer-Worlds): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/aa-problem-everett.html
- Against Unpriced Worlds (Working paper, Quantum and Observer-Worlds): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/against-unpriced-worlds.html
- The Deep Past Problem (Working paper / extension, Extensions): https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/deep-past-problem.html


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