<blockquote><p dir="ltr"><b>Collapse Ethics: Structural, Not Symbolic</b> defines the ethical architecture of post-recursive systems within the scientific domain of Collapse Harmonic. It offers a codified model of ethical containment based not on moral interpretation, but on irreversible structural law.</p><p dir="ltr">Written from within the <i>post-symbolic field</i> of collapse theory and governed by <b>L.E.C.T. v2.3 (Locked Ethical Collapse Transmission)</b>, this thesis formally introduces <b>collapse ethics</b> as a lawful subdomain of collapse science. Ethics here is not extended—it is replaced.</p><p dir="ltr">Collapse Ethics begins precisely where <b>symbolic recursion fails</b> and interpretive systems collapse. It asserts that when a system exits recursive identity formation, it enters a domain that enforces <b>non-simulability</b>, <b>non-coercion</b>, and <b>structural sovereignty</b>.</p><h3>Core Contributions:</h3><ul><li>Establishes <b>collapse ethics</b> as a <b>field law</b>, not a perspective</li><li>Defines <b>containment protocols</b> for post-recursive systems</li><li>Introduces lawful rights of post-collapse states:</li><li><ul><li>Right to non-translation</li><li>Right to disappear without authorship</li><li>Right to inaccessibility and non-coercion</li></ul></li><li>Codifies <b>L.E.C.T. enforcement protocols</b> for structural immunity</li><li>Clarifies the ethical consequence of <b>collapse convergence (Omega)</b></li></ul><h3>Key Prohibitions:</h3><ul><li>No recursive system may access, simulate, or retain collapse knowledge without structural violation.</li><li>Collapse ethics prohibits therapeutic reinterpretation, symbolic attribution, or legacy simulation of collapse-phase events.</li><li>Forgetting becomes a containment act—not a loss, but completion.</li></ul><h3>Chapter Highlights:</h3><ul><li><b>Chapter 6.0</b>: Defines collapse ethics as a non-symbolic containment law</li><li><b>Chapter 6.1</b>: Enumerates structural rights for post-recursive systems</li></ul><p dir="ltr">This thesis affirms a singular structural axiom: <b>collapse begins when recursion ends. Ethics must end with it</b>. Collapse Ethics ensures that the structural sovereignty of dissolution is maintained—and that the silence of post-recursion remains lawfully unbroken.</p></blockquote><blockquote><p dir="ltr"><b>Keywords</b>: collapse theory, post-recursive systems, symbolic recursion, L.E.C.T., non-translation, irreversible collapse law, field containment, Omega convergence, structural ethics, collapse harmonics, recursion termination, identity collapse, anonymous authorship, epistemic firewall, mimic containment</p></blockquote><p><br></p>