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# Open Questions Register
Questions that remain unresolved or contested. Link related entries in
`Claims.md`, `ThoughtExperiments.md`, and `concepts/` where helpful.
**Phase I update:** 2026-08-12 — several RQs refined; detail OQs from RN-005/006
indexed below.
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## RQ1 — What constitutes a Being?
**Phase I status:** refined, not closed.
Working answer: multi-layer profile (autonomous individuality + personhood +
addressability + recognition). Still open:
- Weighting and thresholds of B1B8
- Observer-relative individuation without arbitrariness
- Nested levels (colony, collective, multi-Body)
## RQ2 — What constitutes personhood?
**Phase I status:** deferred to Phase III; necessity of *some* personhood layer
for Beinghood established (daemon false positive).
- Descriptive vs social vs moral vs legal still must stay distinct
- Dimension list for descriptive personhood incomplete
## RQ3 — What constitutes a Mind?
**Phase I status:** model-based reading supported (H3); remaining:
- Precise definition of “model” (OQ-055)
- Minimal apparatus; recursive social depth
- Relation to RN-006 model families SM1SM8
## RQ4 — What constitutes a Soul?
**Phase I status:** revised definition (boundary removed); **not closed**.
- Rename vs retain “Soul”
- Packaging: relations vs consequences vs both
- Relation to lineage after identity ends
## RQ5 — How does identity persist?
**Phase I status:** structure clarified (Identity ≠ Continuity ≠ Lineage); open:
- Continuity weighting (OQ-043)
- Dormancy ontology (OQ-046/047)
- Fork rights and relationship branching (OQ-050/051)
- Ghost authority and gradual transition (OQ-052/053)
- Merge responsibility (OQ-054)
## RQ6 — How does recognition create social beinghood?
**Phase I status:** recognition disambiguated; social vs systemic clarified.
- TE-09: is recognition constitutive of Being or only Social Being?
- Minimal recognition conditions
## RQ7 — What is character?
**Phase I status:** deferred (Phase III); character neither necessary nor
sufficient for identity (RN-004).
## RQ8 — What kinds of artificial Being exist?
**Phase I status:** partial — Sp. begins new lineage; Gh. defaults to authorized
succession; Agent functional vs autonomous split. Full typology Phase IVV.
## Cross-cutting
- Memory vs continuity thresholds
- Operational / identity / social death / legacy interactions
- Law/governance map (Phase V/XII)
- Fiction as conceptual laboratory (Phase VI/XIII)
### Indexed OQs from research notes
| ID | Topic | Note |
|---|---|---|
| OQ-043054 | Identity continuity governance | RN-005 |
| OQ-055068 | Social mind / co-adaptation | RN-006 |
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## Resolved / refined (Phase I)
| Item | Disposition | Pointer |
|---|---|---|
| Boundary belongs to Soul? | **No** — boundary to Being | RN-001 SF-C002 |
| Autonomy alone = Beinghood? | **No** | RN-003 principal falsification |
| Identity = memory dump? | **No** | RN-004/005 |
| Identity = Continuity? | **No** — may branch | Parfit; RN-004 |
| Soul = boundary? | **No** — Soul = relation | RN-001 §14 |
| Actor = Being? | **No** | H6; TE-04 |