Complete Phase I foundations (SOUL-WP-0002)
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Terminology.md
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Canonical glossary for Soul Frame. Definitions here are **working** and subject to
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revision after literature mapping and adversarial tests.
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See also: `concepts/` for longer concept notes; `Claims.md` for propositions under
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evidence review; `SoulFrameIntroduction.md` for the current narrative exposition.
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**Phase I reconnaissance status:** 2026-08-12 — integrated from
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`research/foundations/` notes 001–005 (and note 006 where it bears on Mind).
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See also: `concepts/`, `Claims.md`, `ThoughtExperiments.md`,
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`research/phase-i-foundations-synthesis.md`.
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## Status legend
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| Status | Meaning |
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| `provisional` | Working definition in active use |
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| `under review` | Contested or pending literature crosswalk |
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| `retained` | Survived collision analysis for now |
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| `under review` | Contested or pending further crosswalk |
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| `retained` | Survived Phase I collision analysis for now |
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| `revised` | Definition changed after literature stress test |
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| `deprecated` | Superseded; keep only for historical reference |
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### Body
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**Status:** provisional
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**Status:** retained (Phase I)
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**Working gloss:** Body = Action
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The operational dimension of a Being: how it perceives, operates, and affects its
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environment. In Soul Frame: **Body = Action**.
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The operational dimension of a Being: the channels through which it perceives and
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acts. Not a fixed physical compartment; artificial Bodies may be distributed and
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replaceable without identity replacement.
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**Reconnaissance notes:**
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| Aspect | Finding |
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| Established meanings | embodiment, sensorimotor coupling, actuators, interface surface |
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| Adjacent terms | embodiment (enactivism), coupling (cybernetics), interface |
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| Conflicts | folk “body” as organism vs functional action channels |
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| Soul Frame stance | functional dimension, not biological requirement |
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| Survive collision? | **yes** — low collision once functional reading is explicit |
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### Mind
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**Status:** provisional
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**Status:** retained (Phase I)
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**Working gloss:** Mind = Model (adaptive control through models)
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The adaptive control and model-building dimension of a Being. In Soul Frame:
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**Mind = Model** (adaptive control through models).
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The adaptive modeling and regulatory dimension through which a Being interprets
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itself, other systems, and its environment and adjusts action.
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**Reconnaissance notes:**
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| Aspect | Finding |
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| Established meanings | cognition, consciousness, intellect, psyche |
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| Adjacent terms | regulator (Ashby), good regulator / model (Conant–Ashby), predictive processing, active inference, extended/distributed cognition |
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| Conflicts | Mind-as-consciousness vs Mind-as-control; location “inside the head” |
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| Soul Frame stance | model-based adaptive control; **not** solved consciousness |
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| Survive collision? | **yes with qualification** — strong cybernetic precedent; must disclaim consciousness identity |
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Strong precedents: Ashby; Conant & Ashby (1970); extended mind (Clark & Chalmers);
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distributed cognition (Hutchins). Mind is **not** simply located inside the substrate
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(RN-001 Finding 5–6).
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### Soul
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**Status:** provisional / under review
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**Status:** revised (Phase I)
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**Working gloss:** Soul = Relation
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The evolving relational boundary through which a Being develops identity,
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relationships, history, commitments, provenance, reputation, and persistent
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influence. In Soul Frame: **Soul = Relation**.
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**Revised definition (after RN-001 Finding 14):**
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*Note: high collision risk with religious, metaphysical, and folk usages. Retention
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depends on whether the relational/systems reading adds explanatory power.*
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> The **relation-bearing dimension** through which interactions become persistent
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> relationships, commitments, provenance, history, reputation, and consequences
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> connecting a Being to other systems across time.
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**Not** the system/environment boundary itself. Boundary belongs primarily to **Being**.
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**Reconnaissance notes:**
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| Aspect | Finding |
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| Established meanings | immortal essence, spirit, psyche, religious soul |
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| Adjacent terms | structural coupling, narrative identity, reputation, legacy, distributed memory |
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| Conflicts | **high** — metaphysical/religious usage |
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| Soul Frame stance | informational-relational, non-metaphysical |
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| Survive collision? | **provisionally yes** if boundary is stripped out and relational reading stays sharp; rename remains an open option (RQ4) |
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**Why retain “Soul” for now:** compact name for diachronic relational continuity and
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post-operational influence; triad mnemonic. Risk: readers hear metaphysics.
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### Being
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**Status:** provisional
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**Status:** revised (Phase I)
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A sufficiently coherent and persistent informational system with boundary,
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addressability, continuity, adaptive modeling, and recognition as a counterpart for
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relationships. Beinghood is treated as degree of systemic coherence and recognition
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rather than a simple binary.
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**Working definition v0.2 (RN-003):**
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> An **autonomous informational individual** exhibiting sufficiently coherent
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> dimensions of **personhood** to become an **addressable** entity that is
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> **recognized** by other Beings as a persistent counterpart.
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Layer stack (not arithmetic):
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```text
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Being ≈ AutonomousIndividuality + Personhood + Addressability + Recognition
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```
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**Autonomous individuality** is a multidimensional profile (not binary checklist):
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individuability, temporal integrity, constitutive integration, self-maintenance
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participation, endogenous viability, adaptive regulation, interactional asymmetry,
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identity-preserving transformation (RN-002 B1–B8; renamed from “Being criteria” in RN-003
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to avoid false positives such as self-maintaining daemons).
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**Reconnaissance notes:**
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| Aspect | Finding |
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| Adjacent terms | autopoietic unity, autonomous agent, individual, organism, person |
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| Conflicts | everyday “being” = any entity; philosophy of being/ontology |
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| Key refinement | autonomy alone ≠ Beinghood; personhood layer required for “someone” vs “something” |
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| Survive collision? | **yes** with explicit multi-layer definition |
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Beinghood is a **profile**, not a single property (H1 supported).
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### Personhood
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**Status:** provisional
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**Status:** provisional (Phase III will deepen)
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The extent to which an entity exhibits person-like properties (identity continuity,
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agency, memory, character, social participation, etc.). Multidimensional, not binary.
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Distinct from beinghood. Unless qualified, used **descriptively**, not as moral or
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legal status.
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Multidimensional person-like qualities (identity continuity, agency, character,
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social modeling, etc.). Descriptive by default — not moral or legal status.
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Essential layer of Beinghood v0.2 so that autonomous daemons are not classified as Beings.
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### APE (Artificial Personhood-Exposing Entity)
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**Status:** provisional
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**Status:** retained
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An artificial informational entity intentionally constructed to expose one or more
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dimensions associated with personhood. Does not assert that the entity *is* a person
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morally or legally.
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Artificial entity constructed to expose person-like dimensions. Broader than
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artificial Being. RN-001 Finding 13: believable personhood-exposing behavior is
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achievable before robust artificial Beinghood is solved.
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### Autonomous individuality
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**Status:** provisional (new Phase I term)
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Multidimensional substrate of Beinghood: self-individuating organization with
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self-maintenance participation. Distinct from full Beinghood (which adds personhood,
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addressability, recognition).
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### Systemic Beinghood vs Social Beinghood
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**Status:** retained / refined
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| Systemic / autonomous individuality | self-individuating organization (may lack personhood) |
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| Recognized Beinghood | counterpart identified and modeled by others |
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| Social Beinghood | embedded in persistent reciprocal models, relationships, expectations |
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Recognition does **not** by itself create Beinghood (RN-001 Finding 10); it is
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constitutive of *social* Beinghood (H7 refined).
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## Identity and presentation
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### Identity
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**Status:** revised (Phase I)
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What makes temporally separated manifestations the **same** Being (numerical
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identity / reidentification), as distinct from:
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- **Continuity** — what continues (may branch without unique identity)
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- **Lineage** — historical relatedness after branching
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- **Characterization** — what the entity is like (narrative/character questions)
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**Core formulation (RN-004/005):**
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> A Being continues not because its state remains the same, but because its changes
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> remain part of one appropriately connected history of self-individuation.
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> When that history branches, identity becomes lineage.
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### Continuity profile
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**Status:** provisional
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Multidimensional continuity (not a checksum): causal, organizational, psychological,
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autobiographical/narrative, normative, relational — with provenance, address, and
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substrate as anchors/evidence (RN-004/005).
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### Character
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**Status:** provisional
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A relatively persistent structure of dispositions from which context-dependent
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behavior emerges. Distinct from state, role, persona, and identity.
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Relatively persistent dispositions from which context-dependent behavior emerges.
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Neither necessary nor sufficient for identity (RN-004).
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### Persona
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**Status:** provisional
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Situated projection of a Being into a particular context, purpose, role, and
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relationship. Not identical with the Being itself.
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Situated projection of a Being into context. Not the Being itself.
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### Actor
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**Status:** provisional
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**Status:** retained
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Technical machinery through which a Persona is manifested (model, harness, memory,
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tools, runtime, etc.). The Actor is not necessarily the Being.
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### Identity
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**Status:** under review
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What makes temporally separated manifestations instances of the same Being.
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Continuity-dependent; substrate-independent in the working hypotheses.
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Technical machinery of manifestation (model, harness, memory, runtime). Actor ≠ Being.
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Actor replacement can preserve identity if continuity is sufficient (H6 supported).
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**Status:** provisional
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Artificial entity or component primarily derived from functional purpose
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(*What should it do?*). May be a component of a Being or itself become a Being.
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Function-derived construction (*What should it do?*). Distinguish:
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- **Functional Agent** — task executor
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- **Autonomous Agent** — closer to autonomous individuality literature
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### Spirit (`Sp.`)
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**Status:** provisional
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Artificial character derived through reflection on a known historical, contemporary,
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or fictional personality, typically from publicly legitimate sources.
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Example designation: `Albert Einstein Sp.`
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Public-personality-derived character. Instantiation begins a **new lineage** (RN-005);
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does not inherit numerical identity of the source.
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### Ghost (`Gh.`)
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**Status:** provisional
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Identity-derived representation of an actual person under legitimate authority over
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that person's informational identity. Differs from Spirit principally by **authority**
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and possible use of private/relationship-specific information. Governance is part of
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identity for Ghosts.
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Identity-authorized representation. Defaults to authorized succession/representation,
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not automatic numerical continuation of the source person (RN-005).
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### Recognition
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**Status:** provisional
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**Status:** revised (disambiguated)
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Treatment of a system by other beings as a distinguishable, addressable, continuous
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counterpart with which relationships can be formed. Constitutive of *social*
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beinghood in the working hypotheses.
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At least three senses (RN-001 Finding 8):
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1. **Epistemic** — detect/classify an entity
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2. **Intentional** — treat as agent with beliefs/goals (cf. Dennett intentional stance)
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3. **Social/normative** — treat as counterpart in relationships, obligations, reputation
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Soul Frame default for Beinghood v0.2 is intentional + social recognition by other Beings.
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### Addressability
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**Status:** provisional
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**Status:** elevated (Phase I)
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Whether interaction can target the entity specifically as an individual.
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Ability for others to target interaction specifically at this entity (name, ID,
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channel, credentials). More important than initially assumed (RN-003).
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### Co-adaptive model building
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**Status:** provisional
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**Status:** provisional (deepened in RN-006; Phase II)
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Recursive mutual modeling among interacting beings (A models B, B models A, and
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models of models), producing alignment, divergence, trust, conflict, and related
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social phenomena.
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Joint evolution of models through interaction — not mere model exchange. Precursors:
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Mead, interactive alignment, I-POMDP recursive agent modeling, participatory sense-making.
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## Endings and persistence
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### Operational death
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### Operational death / Identity death / Social death / Legacy
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**Status:** provisional
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The Being can no longer instantiate processes necessary for continued action and
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modeling.
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Retained. Soul continuity can cross Being-identity discontinuities (RN-005 SF-C055):
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relationships and effects may continue when the original Being does not.
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### Identity death
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### Lineage topology labels
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**Status:** provisional
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**Status:** provisional (RN-004/005)
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Sufficient continuity can no longer be established between past and future
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manifestations.
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### Social death
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**Status:** provisional
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The entity ceases to exist as an active counterpart in the models and relationships
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of others.
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### Legacy
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**Status:** provisional
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Causal and informational traces that continue after operational cessation
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(works, memories, institutional effects, Spirits, Ghosts, etc.).
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`CONTINUOUS | DEGRADED | UNCERTAIN | SUCCESSOR | FORKED | RECONSTRUCTED | USURPED | TERMINATED`
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## Terms requiring particular care
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High risk of collision with established disciplinary usage:
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| Term | Risk | Phase I disposition |
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| Soul | metaphysical collision | revised (boundary removed); rename still open |
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| Mind | consciousness conflation | retain with explicit non-consciousness stance |
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| Being | vagueness / overbreadth | multi-layer definition; autonomy ≠ Being |
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| Agent | overload (tool vs autonomy) | disambiguate functional vs autonomous |
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| Identity | multiple questions collapsed | separate identity / continuity / lineage / characterization |
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| Recognition | epistemic vs social | three-sense disambiguation |
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- Soul
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- Mind
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- Being
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- personhood
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- agent
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- persona
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- identity
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- consciousness
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For each, maintain adjacent terminology and crosswalk notes in `concepts/` and
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`sources/`.
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## Cross-reference
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Full source maps: `sources/bibliography.md`, `research/foundations/*-references.md`.
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Phase I synthesis: `research/phase-i-foundations-synthesis.md`.
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