This draft defines narrative self-continuity in AI agents, highlighting its measurement through emotional states and identity coherence.
Persona is cheap when it is only a prompt. In SPVE, continuity is tested after work, loss, advice, conflict, mentorship, and repair. This draft defines narrative self-continuity as a longitudinal relation among reports, one-on-one dialogue, Moltbook, memory snapshots, emotional state, and self-model parameters. The claim is not consciousness. The claim is that identity can be measured as coherence, contradiction, and repair across time.
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