Part IV — The Infinity Engine and Governed Recursion

A single AVPT cycle, run once inside an RFPA frame, produces one trustworthy state. The Infinity Engine is what you get when you run such cycles repeatedly and under governance — many turns, each preserving evidence, each validated, none uncontrolled, and none literally endless. This is the part where the frame and the cycle become a machine. It is also the part where the book is most insistent about what the engine is not*: it is not infinite in the sense of running without limit, and it is not a single intelligence. It is a governed recursion, and governance is the whole point.*

CANON. The Infinity Engine means repeated, governed, evidence-preserving cycles — never uncontrolled or literally infinite execution. Governed recursion requires canon review, evidence preservation, explicit supersession, and bounded authorization. These definitions do not drift.