Gaitan, Oscar: The Infinite Interior: On Space, Change, and the Integrity of the Self

The classical problem of identity through change has been framed as a tension between flux and persistence: either reality is continuous becoming without stable identity, or identity is preserved at the cost of denying genuine change. This essay proposes a third framework by grounding identity in the topology of transition. It argues that any transition between states contains a continuous infinite interior—an ontological, not merely epistemic, structure that admits no boundary at which one stat