How do we continue being ourselves while changing?

Scientific object

Continuity is not the preservation of an unchanged form.

The proposal investigates whether human experience may change deeply while preserving enough relations for recognition, orientation and continuation.

The original lived experience explains where the question came from. It does not validate the resulting concepts.

Epistemic status

A research program under construction.

• A public authorial corpus with identified versions and DOI deposits.
• A conceptual architecture and documentary governance.
• No completed empirical validation.
• No current measurement instrument.

Language and scope

An English overview, with Portuguese source documents.

English summaries are available for the scientific proposal, the corpus and external review. The complete publications and documentary registry remain in Portuguese; these summaries do not replace them. Portuguese construct names are retained rather than presented as adopted English terminology.