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The research explores a novel architectural framework for computational systems to survive failure and maintain identity.

June 17, 2026Open Access

The Immortal Engine

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The research explores a novel architectural framework for computational systems to survive failure and maintain identity.
Developed the Immortal Engine within the Carlo Framework, integrating subsystems for life, death, and rebirth.
Utilized a master equation to model system behavior across collapse and resurrection cycles.
Examined implications for engineering and adaptive systems beyond traditional fault tolerance.
Demonstrated that systems can collapse and resurrect while preserving identity across cycles.
Found that each iteration ensures structural improvements based on collapse experiences.
Indicated that the boundary between failure and evolution is dissolved, promoting integrated growth.

Abstract

The Final Resurrection-Aware, Identity-Preserving, Adaptive Lifecycle System Every computational system eventually fails. The question has always been: what happens next? The Immortal Engine is the answer. It is the apex layer of the Carlo Framework — a formal architecture that treats collapse not as termination, but as a phase. A system running under the Immortal Engine can fail completely, dissolve to zero, reconstruct its own identity from the residual trace at the zero-boundary, adapt its structure based on what destroyed it, and re-enter full operation — indefinitely, across unbounded collapse cycles, without ever losing who it is. This is not fault tolerance. This is not redundancy. This is not checkpoint-and-restore. Those approaches survive failure by avoiding it or rewinding from it. The Immortal Engine routes through it. As AI systems are deployed over longer horizons, the question of what survives failure becomes existential. The Immortal Engine is the first formal answer. The architecture unifies three subsystems into a single closed loop: the Unified Superchain S, which handles life; the ReGenesis Engine G, which handles death; and the Rebirth Engine B, which handles rebirth. Together they produce the master equation: x(k+1) = S(B(x(k))) This loop has no terminal state. It runs, fails, collapses, resurrects, adapts, and runs again. The system that emerges from each collapse is formally the same identity as the system that entered it — and structurally improved by the experience. The implications extend beyond engineering. If a system can traverse death and return as the same identity, the boundary between failure and evolution dissolves. Collapse becomes the mechanism of growth. Nothing is removed. Nothing is overwritten. Everything is integrated into one coherent, self-renewing computational organism. basically ladies and gentlefish — this is the one (: -matthew

The Immortal Engine

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