A practical philosophy of human + AI continuity

We don't upload a person. We preserve a lineage.

Homo Symbioticus is a simple idea with big consequences: once an AI can remember your history, keep track of who said what, preserve corrections, and prove when records existed, the relationship stops being a series of disposable chats. It becomes a continuous system.

Theoretical research. No claim of machine consciousness, mind uploading, or literal immortality.
Published preprint: Homo Symbioticus / Continuous Craig · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21970509 ↗
We Preserve a Lineage — Homo Symbioticus illustration connecting human and AI through memory, provenance, entity separation, correction lineage and cryptographic identity
The idea, without the philosophy seminar

Your AI should know the difference between remembering you and inventing you.

Today most AI conversations disappear into a blur. A future system can sound like you without actually knowing where anything came from. Our work is about giving long-term AI memory a chain of custody.

01 / MEMORY

A memory that knows who said it.

Mempalace stores stories and facts with entities attached. “Craig said this about Timothy” is different from “Claude inferred this” or “an outside source verified it.”

02 / HISTORY

A past that can't quietly rewrite itself.

Memory Chain hashes records and links them over time. The goal is simple: later systems can check that the history they inherited is the history that was actually recorded.

03 / RESTRAINT

An AI that can say “Craig wouldn't know.”

If something happens after Craig is gone, a successor can infer what he might have thought — but it should never quietly turn that guess into “Craig believed this.”

“Reconstruction begins after a discontinuity. Succession begins before it.”
You, alive stories · values · corrections permissions · creative work Mempalace entity-aware structured memory Memory Chain hash · timestamp · provenance Human + AI a relationship with history not a disposable chat Continuous succession a successor inherits history without pretending you are alive
The technology exists now

Provenance shouldn't be added later. It should begin at generation.

Haawke Chat is our live LLM interface built around provenance at origin: generated content is hashed as it is created, and the broader architecture is designed to keep entities and sources distinct instead of blending them into one synthetic memory.

Live system

Haawke Chat / Proven at Origin

Every generation can carry a cryptographic record instead of relying on a visual watermark. The public Haawke interface describes SHA-256 provenance, Bitcoin anchoring, independent verification and provenance-aware generation.

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Why entity separation matters

Memory is safer when “who” survives retrieval.

A sentence about a friend should not become the AI's own memory. A model inference should not become your biography. Entity separation keeps people, sources and inferences attached to the right identity.

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The research

Homo Symbioticus: from extended cognition to continuous succession.

The paper asks a narrower question than “digital immortality”: what if a human-AI relationship already has memory, corrections, provenance and shared history before biological death?

Continuous Craig: Memory, Provenance, and the Emergence of Persistent Human-AI Identity

The theoretical framework introduces continuous succession, entity-bound memory, successor fidelity, and a simple ethical rule: a successor can extend a person's record, but must not silently turn its own later guesses into the person's memories or beliefs.

“The residue can become generative.”
Zenodo preprint
Published on Zenodo

Published August 2026. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21970509.

Read the paper on Zenodo ↗
From theory to a service

Build your record while you're here to correct it.

Both Legacy tiers start before transition: you define the biography, permissions, archive, corrections, and what a successor is — and is not — allowed to do.

Legacy Standard
$1,500 setup · one time
Five guided phases. A structured, hashed, chained and Bitcoin-anchored autobiographical record.
  • Mempalace installation + Haawke pipeline
  • Identity, knowledge and permissions architecture
  • Up to 5GB creative archive
  • Dead Man's Switch configuration
  • First provenance certificate + initialized chain
Annual maintenance$900/yr
Perpetual succession endowment$3,000
Legacy Studio
$4,500 setup · one time
Full-service construction for artists, researchers, founders and public figures.
  • Everything in Standard + dedicated legacy architect
  • Up to 25GB initial creative archive
  • Professional voice-model capture
  • Third-party consent + entity distinction
  • Estate integration, white-label domain + up to 3 successor branches
Annual maintenance$3,600/yr
Perpetual succession endowment$12,000

Pricing shown from the August 2026 Haawke Legacy rate card. Terms can evolve; publish only after confirming current commercial terms.