This record contains the English reference version and the Hungarian translation of Constraint Continuity Theory (CCT), version 0.2. CCT is a conceptual preprint proposing a criterion for the persistence of self-maintaining individuals. The criterion is that an individual persists just in case there is non-branching, self-maintained constraint continuity from an earlier to a later state. The proposal treats branching as the discriminator between two regimes of the same underlying relation: where self-maintained constraint continuity does not branch, it constitutes token identity; where it branches, it constitutes lineage continuity. The paper is comparative and conceptual rather than empirical or fully formalized. It positions the proposal in dialogue with Parfit’s account of personal identity, Deacon’s account of constraint-based self-maintaining organization, autopoiesis, closure of constraints, biological individuality, and the theory of major evolutionary transitions. Version 0.2 includes a prior-art risk assessment, a worked example, narrowed novelty claims, explicit scope limits, and a glossary. Status: conceptual preprint; not peer reviewed. The English version is the reference version. The Hungarian version is a faithful translation for Hungarian-language access.
Omri Bankuti (Sun,) studied this question.