Ontological Resilience Theory (ORT) is a bounded mechanistic framework defining continuity as the mechanism-set preserving interior authorship of first-person experience across time. ORT distinguishes continuity from identity, affect, narrative, or regulation and introduces substitution dynamics, alignment discovery, and rupture conditions as explanatory constructs. Scope: ORT is not a theory of consciousness, therapy model, diagnostic system, or moral framework. It is intended as a conceptual risk lens and analytic framework for examining continuity dynamics across psychological, behavioural, and system-design contexts. This deposit contains the canonical framework and the formal objection-elimination protocol used to stabilise its conceptual structure.
Ingham Stephen (Mon,) studied this question.