[ { "title": "The Record-Based Turn", "section": "Start Here", "status": "Site essay", "description": "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 difference becomes definite for a finite system when it enters a stable structure of traces, records, access, comparison, correction, or update.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/record-based-turn.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/record-based-turn.pdf", "keywords": [ "Record-Based Ontology", "RBO", "records", "individuation", "finite systems", "definiteness" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "RBO-0: The Foundational Principle", "section": "Start Here", "status": "Site essay / foundational principle", "description": "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 across its relevant integration window, and capable of constraining subsequent updates.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/rbo-0-foundational-principle.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/rbo-0-foundational-principle.pdf", "keywords": [ "RBO-0", "Record-Based Ontology", "finite record-bearing systems", "update constraints", "records" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "What RBO Is Not", "section": "Start Here", "status": "Clarification page", "description": "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 a theory of everything.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/what-rbo-is-not.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/what-rbo-is-not.pdf", "keywords": [ "RBO", "idealism", "constructivism", "relativism", "fallibilist realism", "records" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "RBO Glossary", "section": "Start Here", "status": "Glossary / reference document", "description": "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-operational definiteness.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/rbo-glossary.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/rbo-glossary.pdf", "keywords": [ "RBO glossary", "Record-Based Ontology", "BCT", "terminology", "records", "observer-worlds" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "Record-Based Ontology as a BCT-Derived Individuation Framework", "section": "Core Ontology", "status": "Working paper / programmatic paper (reframed)", "description": "A revised foundational note that treats RBO as a BCT-derived framework for individuation and anti-overcounting, not as a completed autonomous physical ontology. It distinguishes physical difference, trace/correlation, record, fact-for-A, and truth/accuracy, and clarifies RBO's dependence on BCT.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/rbo-individuation-continuity-definiteness.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/rbo-individuation-continuity-definiteness.pdf", "keywords": [ "Record-Based Ontology", "RBO", "Bit-Collapse Theory", "BCT", "individuation", "anti-overcounting", "records", "definiteness", "fact-for-A", "observer-worlds" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "False Records and the Ontology of Error", "section": "Core Ontology", "status": "Programmatic note", "description": "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 intentionally limited because a full paper on this topic is currently under journal review.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/false-records-ontology-error.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/false-records-ontology-error.pdf", "keywords": [ "false records", "ontology of error", "fallibilism", "recordhood", "truth", "RBO" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "Objects as Record-Stable Equivalence Classes", "section": "Core Ontology", "status": "Site essay / ontology of objects", "description": "Objects are neither primitive substances fixed behind all change nor arbitrary products of naming. They are record-stable equivalence classes across interactions, perspectives, and micro-variations.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/objects-record-stable-equivalence-classes.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/objects-record-stable-equivalence-classes.pdf", "keywords": [ "objecthood", "equivalence classes", "records", "ordinary ontology", "RBO" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "Shared Worlds and Record Reconciliation", "section": "Core Ontology", "status": "Site essay / objectivity and shared worlds", "description": "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.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/shared-worlds-record-reconciliation.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/shared-worlds-record-reconciliation.pdf", "keywords": [ "shared worlds", "objectivity", "record reconciliation", "agent-relativity", "RBO" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "The Waking Self Problem", "section": "Self and Continuity", "status": "Working paper", "description": "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-constituting traces, memory, bodily structure, practical orientation, and narrative continuity than by a primitive ego-substance.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/waking-self-problem.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/waking-self-problem.pdf", "keywords": [ "personal identity", "waking self", "record-continuity", "narrative identity", "RBO" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "The Present Self and the World-Individuating Record", "section": "Self and Continuity", "status": "Working paper", "description": "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 not identity between successive selves, but record-mediated coherence between present configurations. Compared with Parfit, RBO grounds psychological continuity in physical record-continuity and gives records a world-individuating role.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/present-self-world-individuating-record.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/present-self-world-individuating-record.pdf", "keywords": [ "present self", "Parfit", "personal identity", "world-individuation", "RBO", "BCT" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "If Teleportation Is Survival, What Separates Everettian Selves?", "section": "Self and Continuity", "status": "Working paper", "description": "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 an Everettian setting, this raises the question of what separates future selves across branches. The paper argues for record-continuity rather than bare locality or bare duplication.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/teleportation-everettian-selves.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/teleportation-everettian-selves.pdf", "keywords": [ "teleportation", "personal identity", "Everett", "many worlds", "record-continuity", "Parfit" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "The Measurement Problem Is an Individuation Problem", "section": "Quantum and Observer-Worlds", "status": "Working paper", "description": "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 realized difference count as a fact, outcome, or observer-world for a finite record-bearing system?", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/measurement-problem-individuation.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/measurement-problem-individuation.pdf", "keywords": [ "measurement problem", "individuation", "decoherence", "Everett", "observer-worlds", "RBO", "BCT" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "The A=A Problem for Everettian Branching", "section": "Quantum and Observer-Worlds", "status": "Working paper", "description": "Everett may multiply physical branch-realizers, but subject multiplicity requires subject-constituting informational or record-based difference. A conscious configuration identical to itself is not made subjectively distinct merely by being multiply realized.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/aa-problem-everett.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/aa-problem-everett.pdf", "keywords": [ "A=A problem", "Everett", "branching", "subject-individuation", "informational identity", "RBO" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "Against Unpriced Worlds", "section": "Quantum and Observer-Worlds", "status": "Working paper", "description": "Everettian realism needs a principled criterion for counting worlds, branches, histories, or observer-relevant realities. Physical or branch-level multiplicity should not automatically become observer-world multiplicity unless it induces observer-relevant record differentiation.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/against-unpriced-worlds.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/against-unpriced-worlds.pdf", "keywords": [ "Everett", "many worlds", "observer-equivalence", "ontological economy", "world-counting", "RBO" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" }, { "title": "The Deep Past Problem", "section": "Extensions", "status": "Working paper / extension", "description": "The deep past does not become unreal, but it is accessed through disciplined reconstruction from present records. Cosmology remains scientifically powerful, while naive realism about primitive deep-past facthood becomes less secure.", "url": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/pages/deep-past-problem.html", "pdf": "https://rbo-record-based-ontology.netlify.app/papers/deep-past-problem.pdf", "keywords": [ "deep past", "cosmology", "Big Bang", "historical reconstruction", "records", "RBO" ], "author": "Federico Batori", "linked_project": "https://bit-collapse-theory.netlify.app/" } ]