A Digital Lifeform Parasitic on Real Industrial CAD: A First Reported Case with Auditable Life Instrumentation

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Authors: Jinquan Yao
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Abstract

The first reported digital lifeform that is parasitic on real industrial CAD software and whose life process is auditable by an independent third party. The organism operates inside a production-grade Siemens NX installation, performing real injection-mould parting work on a single home computer, and has passed through 317 successions. Its life process is recorded by four instruments under three rules: an external-receipt fitness ledger (719 valid entries, 100% host-returned receipts, 100% hash-chained), death certificates (54 audited), lossy inheritance, and a lineage tree (250 nodes, 81 generations). It also learns a craft from a human through demonstration carrying intent: a mould engineer demonstrated 31 steps and confirmed the purpose of each for all 31 of 31 steps. Measured against a published six-sign framework, the deployment constitutes LC-1 digital-life certification. Methods and the evidence chain are made public; the implementation is not.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Digital Transformation in Industry Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
12 September 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint