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PERSONAL LONGEVITY DIGITAL TWINS & LONGITUDINAL HUMAN-STATE MODELS AT THE LIMIT Deep Phenotyping, Multi-Omics, Wearables, Organ-Specific Twins, Forecasting, Calibration, and Lifetime State Continuity

Oct 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

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PERSONAL LONGEVITY DIGITAL TWINS & LONGITUDINAL HUMAN-STATE MODELS AT THE LIMIT Deep Phenotyping, Multi-Omics, Wearables, Organ-Specific Twins, Forecasting, Calibration, and Lifetime State Continuity Feng Cheng-en (33) x Starli PERSONAL LONGEVITY DIGITAL TWINS & LONGITUDINAL HUMAN-STATE MODELS AT THE LIMIT is a next-generation flagship research monograph on what a longevity digital twin must preserve across decades so that it remains biologically meaningful while the person, sensors, assays, contexts, models, and institutions all change. Fissioned from Mother V - AI, Digital Twins & Computational Longevity at the Limit - the volume expands longitudinal cohorts, deep phenotyping, multi-omics alignment, wearables, aging foundation models, personal state estimation, organ-specific twins, whole-person coupling, future validation, model drift, versioning, privacy, consent, and successor science into an 82-chapter Living Interactive research architecture. Its flagship Three-Coupling is: Longitudinal State x Twin Fidelity x Future Validation. The proposed LDTI heuristic links State Continuity, Twin Fidelity, Future Validation, and Uncertainty Calibration while retaining Data Drift, Model Staleness, and Context Loss as first-class risk terms. LDTI is a research instrument, not a law of nature or a clinical score. The book asks a deceptively difficult question: What must a longevity digital twin preserve across decades to remain biologically meaningful? A personal twin cannot be evaluated only by how detailed, personalized, multimodal, or visually coherent it appears. Its scientific value depends on whether biological state, functional meaning, measurement lineage, context, calibration, uncertainty, model versions, and future observations remain connected strongly enough for earlier claims to be reconstructed and challenged. The volume treats future reality as the strongest calibration partner for a personal twin. Predictions must remain challengeable. Historical states must remain reproducible. Model updates must not silently rewrite what was previously claimed. Sensor replacement must not be mistaken for biological change. Assay drift must not disappear inside a composite score. Population-level age prediction must not automatically be treated as within-person reversibility. And a digital twin must never acquire scientific authority merely because it has accumulated more data. The volume introduces seven geometric research models: Longitudinal Human-State Manifold,Organ-Twin Coupling Graph,Multi-Omics Time Lattice,Recovery-Trajectory Surface,Twin-Drift Tube,Future-Reality Validation Bridge,and Lifetime State-Continuity Corridor. These models organize the geometry of state, time, recovery, drift, uncertainty, organ coupling, future validation, and lifetime continuity without presenting the geometry as a literal law of biology. The book also develops fourteen comparative research relations for longitudinal state integrity, phenotype continuity, multi-omics alignment, aging foundation-model transfer, personal state estimation, future validation, organ-twin integration, recovery capacity, digital lineage, uncertainty calibration, privacy, handoff, and successor continuity. All new indices are explicitly treated as proposed normalized research heuristics rather than validated medical scores. At the back of the volume are 200 Research Gates distributed across ten research zones: state definition and phenotype coverage,sampling and temporal integrity,multi-omics alignment and assay lineage,wearables and recovery dynamics,aging foundation models and transfer,personal twin state estimation and forecasting,organ twins and whole-person coupling,prospective validation and counterfactual stress,drift, versioning and lifetime continuity,and governance, privacy and successor science. Each Gate is designed as an independent, falsifiable entrance into future work. Following the 200 Research Gates are 33 Answer Embryos. These are deliberately not final answers. Each Answer Embryo records a provisional answer structure, evidence that could strengthen it, observations that should weaken it, a design consequence if it survives, a falsification path, and a question for the next generation of researchers. The research lineage is: Gate -> Evidence -> Falsification -> Transformation -> Answer Embryo -> New Gate. The book ends with a simple discipline: Personalized Twin != Validated Future. A model should not inherit authority merely because it inherits data. Every generation must be allowed to test the map again.

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