The Continuity Substrate
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: This Version 2 revision preserves the complete Version 1 study and adds one separately labeled post-publication controlled validation of an end-to-end cross-model, cross-machine encrypted memory handoff.Paper 5 asks whether one governed memory substrate can preserve the exact continuity of work when models, clients, machines, operating systems, or runtimes change without transferring authority over canonical memory to the replacement model. The study separates deterministic continuity invariance from variable model comprehension.The Version 1 evidence includes 12 of 12 frozen deterministic fixtures, 23 of 23 unchanged kernel tests, 13 of 13 security-boundary tests, repeated encrypted restart evidence, a separately implemented black-box client, bounded client-pressure evidence, governance-adversarial testing, and retained positive, negative, and infrastructure model outcomes.Version 2 adds a controlled synthetic handoff in which a Mac-local Qwen 3.5 35B model located candidate memory, the deterministic Cortex kernel admitted and evolved the record without granting the model canonical write authority, and the resulting encrypted store transferred from macOS on Arm64 to Windows on AMD64. The transfer archive hash matched across machines, 10 of 10 manifest entries verified, the Windows importer passed 16 of 16 checks, and the Mac and Windows audit chains verified 21 and 30 events respectively with zero failures. A Dell-local Gemma 3 12B model then recovered the exact authorized fact in 5 of 5 checks while its receipt recorded no canonical write authority.The result demonstrates one controlled first-party synthetic cross-family, cross-machine encrypted-store handoff with governed identity, current state, prior history, provenance, mutation denial, restart continuity, and external canonical authority preserved. It does not establish universal compatibility, production key management, regulatory compliance, security certification, production-scale performance, or independent replication.This work is part of the Artificial Deterministic Intelligence research program. ADI supplies the governing theory of probabilistic reasoning under deterministic authority, and Cortex Continuum is the memory substrate evaluated in this paper.
Author: Laskowski, Branden
Language: English
Subfield: Hardware and Architecture
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225338702