Deployed Human Intelligence: A Protocol for Cognitive Identity on Synthetic Substrates

We present Deployed Human Intelligence (DHI): a protocol and working architecture for systems in which human cognitive identity is not simulated but structurally preserved on synthetic substrates. The architecture is organized as a twelve-layer epistemological stack — grounded in thermodynamic self-organization, biological autopoiesis, and embodied cognition — in which identity is the core primitive, ethics operates as an immune system rather than a constraint layer, and emergence arises from the simultaneous activation of all layers of cognitive depth. We introduce the SQUID coordination protocol for distributed cognitive processes, the principle of proportional activation, and the concept of biological tethering as an ontological requirement for any system claiming to deploy human intelligence. A working prototype is currently training on EuroHPC infrastructure (MareNostrum 5, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre). The argument is simple: intelligence without identity is computation; identity without embodiment is abstraction; and abstraction, however fluent, does not see.