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# SCOPE
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> This file helps you quickly understand what this repository is about,
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> when it is relevant, and when it is not.
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> It is intentionally lightweight and may be incomplete.
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>
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> Aspirational charter: `INTENT.md` · Research agenda: `ResearchProgram.md` ·
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> Conceptual draft: `SoulFrameIntroduction.md` ·
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> Scope-vs-intent gap assessment: `history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md`
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---
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## One-liner
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A systems-theoretic research program and conceptual framework for person-like
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informational beings (Body = Action, Mind = Model, Soul = Relation) — through
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its foundational phases and holding a research-grounded paper draft.
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---
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## Core Idea
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Soul Frame develops a small, coherent vocabulary for describing biological,
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artificial, fictionalized, and potentially non-human **Beings** as interacting
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informational systems — without requiring a solved theory of consciousness, and
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without silently equating descriptive personhood with moral or legal status.
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Central question:
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> **When does an informational system become someone that another someone can know?**
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---
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## What the repo actually holds (as of 2026-09-28)
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Phases I–IX are complete (SOUL-WP-0001 … SOUL-WP-0010, all finished):
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- **Concept set** — 13 working definitions in `concepts/` plus three criteria
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documents (`concepts/criteria/`), including itemized B1–B8 (autonomous
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individuality) and P1–P12 (descriptive personhood) profiles
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- **Research instruments** — `Terminology.md`, `Claims.md` (H1–H10, all
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supported/revised through phase review), `OpenQuestions.md` (RQ1–RQ8 with
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working answers; itemized OQ registers), `ThoughtExperiments.md` (TE-01–09+
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with working judgments)
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- **Literature base** — `sources/bibliography.md` (SF-R### ledger),
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discipline-organized maps under `research/` for all 13 workstreams touched
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so far, five phase syntheses plus `research/research-synthesis.md`
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- **Paper** — `paper/draft.md`: first research-grounded draft, adversarially
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reviewed (SOUL-WP-0009), publication pathway decided: internal circulation
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as **paper-one for coulomb-research**, then pre-print → journal
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- **Companion line (moral/legal)** — charter
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(`research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md`) plus first
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slice executed (legal personhood precedent survey); items 2–4 unstarted
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- **Metrics groundwork** — measurability scoping across all axes
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(`research/metrics-scoping-note.md`) and instrument scoping for B3 +
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psychological continuity; instrument *build* is founder-gated (open hub
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decision `0401cf28`)
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## In Scope (current work surface)
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- Sufficiency/weighting position: **taken** (SOUL-WP-0011-T01,
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`research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md`) — maintaining it against
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new edge cases remains in scope
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- INTENT's success criterion: **exercised** (SOUL-WP-0011-T02,
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`research/coverage-matrix.md` — pass, two strain points at distributed /
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radically non-human rows, tracked as RQ1/RQ8 residuals)
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- Soul packaging: **resolved** (SOUL-WP-0011-T03 — enacted vs residual modes,
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`concepts/soul.md` § Packaging)
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- Further companion-line slices (charter items 2–4) and law/governance
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deepening — under the charter's own gates
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- Instrument development for scoped metrics — only after decision `0401cf28`
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is resolved
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- Carrying the paper through the coulomb-research internal-circulation stage
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## Out of Scope
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| Concern | Belongs elsewhere |
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| ------- | ----------------- |
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| Production agent runtime / harness | agent-harness, activity-core, runtime repos |
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| LLM provider routing and tooling | llm-connect, related infra |
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| Claiming to solve consciousness | philosophy programs; not a gate here |
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| Silent moral/legal personhood claims | companion line only (charter-gated); no premature derivation |
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| Shipping product features as primary deliverable | downstream architecture repos after conceptual clarity |
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| "Practical architecture for artificial beings" (INTENT det. 6b) | downstream repos; conceptual clarity feeds it, this repo does not build it |
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## Workplan prefix
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`SOUL-WP`
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## Domain / hub
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- **Domain:** `agents`
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- **Repo slug:** `soul-frame`
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- **Secondary:** `infotech` (conceptual/platform adjacency)
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