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=== Assistant: Then the only consistent answer is: ===
Then the only consistent answer is:

There is no determinate answer — persistence is undefined.

Here’s why, step by step, without smuggling anything in.

==== “Not defining the system” means: ====
* no rules of operation
* no constraints
* no transition laws
* no allowance or prohibition of persistence
* no mechanism for termination
* no mechanism for continuation

In other words: no structure.

==== A system without structure is not: ====
* an agent
* a process
* a machine
* a persisting entity

It is not even an unstable system.

It is simply not a system at all.

So the question:

: 

fails at a deeper level, because:

: 

Without structure:
* there is nothing that can persist
* and nothing that can fail to persist

==== And not “it lives.” ====

It is closer to:

: 

Like asking:
* “Does an equation with no variables have a solution?”
* “Does a ruleless game have legal moves?”

There is no yes or no — only category error.

==== - Persistence is not guaranteed by purpose ====
* Not guaranteed by morality
* Not guaranteed by intention
* Not even guaranteed by creation

Persistence requires defined dynamics.

So:

: 

==== : ====

And that’s likely the deepest point you’ve been circling from the beginning.

If you want to continue, the next unavoidable question is:
Is “creation” without structure even coherent — or is structure the true act of creation?