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# Ghost (`Gh.`)
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**Status:** revised (Phase V, 2026-08-12)
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**See also:** H9, H10, TE-07, `research/ghosts-digital-legacy/ghost-authority-map.md`
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## Working definition
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A **Ghost** is an artificial representation derived from a particular **real
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person** under **legitimate personal or successor authority**.
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Designation: **`Jane Doe Gh.`**
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**Defining distinction from Spirit: authority**, not technical fidelity.
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## Authority ≠ numerical identity
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`Gh.` establishes authorized **identity genealogy**. Continuation of the source
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Being is a **separate** continuity judgment (usually: succession/representation/
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reconstruction, not automatic continuation).
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A Ghost may inherit **Soul-relational** structure without being the same Being.
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## Governance is part of identity
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Candidates: principal, custodian, provenance, consent scope, disclosure rules,
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succession, revocation, representation constraints, commercial permissions,
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audit, fork policy.
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## Social Mind bar
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Relationally situated information + selective disclosure — not private data dumps.
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## False Ghost
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High fidelity without authority → not `Gh.` (H10, TE-07). May be unauthorized
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simulation / illicit APE.
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## Spec / archive / being
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Archive package ≠ Being. Instantiation under governance required; Beinghood
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layers still apply.
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## Sources
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Introduction §10; RN-004 §§39–40; RN-005; RN-006; digital afterlife ethics
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(Spitale & Germani; Lei et al.); Phase V maps.
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