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EXIST

Research

Researching persistence without simplifying identity.

Every program is organized around measurable states, explicit uncertainty, reproducible validation, and traceable provenance.

Research Program

Identity Continuity Index

Code
IP-04
Status
Active
Area
Identity Persistence
Lead
Validation Science

IP-04 develops the Identity Continuity Index, a composite engineering metric for evaluating persistence across multiple dimensions of cognitive identity.

Research Program

Long-Duration Cognitive Drift

Code
IP-09
Status
Active
Area
Identity Persistence
Lead
Cognitive Integrity

IP-09 studies divergence in reconstructed cognitive states over extended durations.

Research Program

Adversarial Self-Model Validation

Code
IP-14
Status
Experimental
Area
Identity Persistence
Lead
Validation Security

IP-14 tests whether a reconstructed model can maintain a coherent self-model under deliberate contradiction, misleading prompts, conflicting autobiographical cues, and identity substitution attempts.