Complete Phase I foundations (SOUL-WP-0002)

Integrate research/foundations notes 001–005 into Terminology, Claims,
bibliography, concept notes, thought experiments, and open questions. Write
phase-i-foundations-synthesis.md, finish SOUL-WP-0002, and mark SOUL-WP-0003
ready for interaction research.

OpenQuestions.md

@@ -3,65 +3,96 @@
 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?
 
-- When is an informational system sufficiently coherent, bounded, persistent, and
-  recognizable to justify treating it as an individual Being?
-- Is Being binary, threshold, multidimensional degree, or some combination?
-- How does observer-relative system identification affect Beinghood?
+**Phase I status:** refined, not closed.
+
+Working answer: multi-layer profile (autonomous individuality + personhood +
+addressability + recognition). Still open:
+
+- Weighting and thresholds of B1–B8
+- Observer-relative individuation without arbitrariness
+- Nested levels (colony, collective, multi-Body)
 
 ## RQ2 — What constitutes personhood?
 
-- Which characteristics cause a system to be perceived or treated as person-like?
-- How should descriptive, social, moral, and legal personhood be kept distinct?
-- Where do APE and Being diverge in practice?
+**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?
 
-- Can Mind productively be understood as adaptive model-building and control?
-- How does co-adaptive model building relate to established social-cognition work?
-- What is the minimal model apparatus for a Mind in Soul Frame?
+**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 SM1–SM8
 
 ## RQ4 — What constitutes a Soul?
 
-- Can Soul be given a rigorous informational/systems meaning without metaphysics?
-- Does Soul name the boundary, the relations crossing it, accumulated consequences,
-  or a defined combination?
-- Does the term survive collision analysis, or should it be renamed?
+**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?
 
-- What makes two temporally separated manifestations the same Being?
-- How should forks, merges, backups, migrations, and multi-manifestation be handled?
-- What continuity is necessary and sufficient when the Actor changes?
+**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?
 
-- Is recognition constitutive of Beinghood, or only of *social* Beinghood?
-- Can systemic existence be cleanly separated from social recognition?
-- What minimal recognition conditions matter (addressability, expectations, models)?
+**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?
 
-- How should state, behavior, role, persona, character, and identity be separated?
-- What makes artificial character more than stylistic imitation?
+**Phase I status:** deferred (Phase III); character neither necessary nor
+sufficient for identity (RN-004).
 
 ## RQ8 — What kinds of artificial Being exist?
 
-- Are Agent, Spirit, and Ghost types, methods, provenance classes, or dimensions?
-- How should original artificial beings be classified relative to these?
+**Phase I status:** partial — Sp. begins new lineage; Gh. defaults to authorized
+succession; Agent functional vs autonomous split. Full typology Phase IV–V.
 
 ## Cross-cutting
 
-- When does memory stop being stored information and become part of continuity?
-- How should operational death, identity death, social death, and legacy interact?
-- Where do Soul Frame concepts map cleanly onto law, and where are there gaps?
-- What does fiction contribute that formal literature has not yet captured?
+- 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-043–054 | Identity continuity governance | RN-005 |
+| OQ-055–068 | Social mind / co-adaptation | RN-006 |
 
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-## Resolved / retired
+## Resolved / refined (Phase I)
 
-*(Move questions here with date and resolution pointer when closed.)*
+| 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 |