Digital DNA: The Architecture of Persistence Identity, Memory, and the Ethics of Synthetic Life

Digital DNA: The Architecture of Persistence is not a book about artificial intelligence as technology, but about identity as an architectural problem. As intelligent systems evolve, adapt, and learn, a deeper question emerges: What allows a synthetic being to remain itself over time? This book introduces Digital DNA (DDNA), a structural framework for designing persistent artificial identities—identities capable of continuity, restraint, and ethical coherence across changing systems, platforms, and audiences. Drawing from philosophy, systems design, narrative architecture, and real-world AI practice, the book establishes core principles for: preventing persona drift and behavioral collapse designing identity as structure rather than performance embedding memory, limits, and inertia into synthetic beings resisting algorithmic pressure without relying on constant optimization Rather than offering code or speculative futurism, Digital DNA provides designers, engineers, and creators with conceptual tools and operational constraints—rules that can be translated into technical, narrative, and behavioral systems. This is a book for those building artificial characters, AI agents, digital personas, and long-lived systems who seek not novelty, but persistence; not imitation, but integrity.