SAFE-Matter™ Invalid Continuation: The Constitutional Failure of Persistent Execution in Consequential Systems

SAFE-Matter™ Invalid Continuation: The Constitutional Failure of Persistent Execution in Consequential Systems examines the constitutional governance failure that occurs when consequential systems continue operational execution beyond the point at which legitimate runtime authority has ceased to remain admissible. The paper argues that many modern operational, autonomous, safety-critical, and cyber-physical systems are structurally designed to privilege continuity of execution unless catastrophic or explicitly detectable failure occurs. Under such architectures, operational continuation is frequently treated as inherently permissible so long as technical capability persists. SAFE-Matter establishes that this…