Bostick, Devin: Background to the Identity-Persistence Theorem_ An Orientation Note on Lens, Reduction, and Scope

This note is a developmental orientation to the identity-persistence program. It is not part of the formal proof stack and does not introduce additional ontological, physical, biological, computational, or metaphysical claims. Its purpose is to explain how an earlier coherence-oriented lens was narrowed into the current formal problem: what must remain invariant for something to persist as the same through transformation within explicit admissibility constraints. The note distinguishes the gener