Update SCOPE to actual repo state; add scope-vs-intent gap assessment; open SOUL-WP-0011
- SCOPE.md now reflects Phases I-IX complete, paper draft with decided pathway, companion line, and metrics groundwork; current work surface and sharpened out-of-scope table - history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md assesses state against INTENT's six determinations and success criterion; gap register G1-G7, ranking G1 (sufficiency/weighting), G2 (coverage matrix), G3 (Soul packaging) as most relevant addressable gaps - SOUL-WP-0011 opened to address G1-G3 (three tasks) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Assistant: claude-code Assistant-Model: sonnet Assistant-Process: 234768@bnt-lap001 Assistant-Session: 91cdb0c1-a203-431c-b542-cf192b3930a6
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> It is intentionally lightweight and may be incomplete.
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> Aspirational charter: `INTENT.md` · Research agenda: `ResearchProgram.md` ·
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> Conceptual draft: `SoulFrameIntroduction.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).
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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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## In Scope
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## What the repo actually holds (as of 2026-09-28)
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- Conceptual systems analysis of Being, Body, Mind, Soul, identity, personhood,
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character, persona, actor, recognition, Agent / Spirit (`Sp.`) / Ghost (`Gh.`)
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- Literature mapping across systems theory, cybernetics, philosophy of mind,
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personal identity, cognitive science, sociology, AI agents, digital legacy, law,
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and cultural precedents
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- Research instruments: terminology standard, claim ledger, open questions,
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thought experiments, concept notes, annotated bibliography
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- Progressive synthesis and a research-grounded Soul Frame paper
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- State Hub–indexed workplans coordinating the research sequence
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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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- Refining weighting/sufficiency questions for the B-, P-, and continuity
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profiles (RQ1/RQ2/RQ5 residuals; paper §17 item 2)
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- Exercising INTENT's success criterion: applying the full vocabulary across
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the nine reference entity types with meaningful distinctions
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- Resolving paper-critical packaging questions (e.g. Soul: relations vs
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consequences, RQ4 remainder)
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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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| 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 | law/governance literature map only; no premature derivation |
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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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# Scope vs. Intent — Gap Assessment (2026-09-28)
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**Context:** SCOPE.md updated the same day to reflect actual repo state
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(Phases I–IX complete, SOUL-WP-0001…0010 finished). This note assesses that
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state against `INTENT.md`'s standing purpose, six determinations, and
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success criterion, and ranks the gaps.
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## 1. Assessment against INTENT's six determinations
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| # | INTENT: "determine…" | State | Verdict |
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| 1 | what is already well established | 13 workstream literature maps, SF-R### ledger, five phase syntheses | **Met** for the traversed fields; fiction set and some WS depth (WS11, WS13) remain thin |
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| 2 | what Soul Frame recombines usefully | `research/concept-crosswalk.md`, related-work §, phase syntheses | **Met** |
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| 3 | what concepts require refinement | H1–H10 all phase-reviewed; RQ1–RQ8 carry working answers with explicit residuals | **Met as process**; residuals live in OpenQuestions |
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| 4 | where terminology conflicts with usage | Terminology standard; RQ4 Soul retention decided with disclaimer policy; Deppert false-friend flagged | **Met** |
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| 5 | what genuinely new propositions emerge | B1–B8 / P1–P12 profiles, three-axis independence, Sp./Gh. as provenance descriptors, recognition test, continuity channel set | **Met**, but propositions are profile-shaped with **no aggregation/threshold principle** (→ G1) |
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| 6a | can these support a rigorous theory | Paper draft exists, adversarially reviewed | **Partially met** — rigor currently rests on per-dimension analysis; sufficiency questions ("how much personhood is *enough* for Beinghood v0.2") are open everywhere they matter (→ G1) |
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| 6b | …and eventually a practical architecture | Deliberately downstream (INTENT itself: "downstream of conceptual clarity") | **Out of repo scope** — not a gap to close here |
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## 2. Assessment against the success criterion
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INTENT's success criterion: one coherent vocabulary describing **nine
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reference entity types** (human, animal, short-lived AI agent, persistent
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autonomous Agent-being, Einstein `Sp.`, authorized `Gh.`, original
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artificial companion, distributed AI, radically non-human system) *while
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still making meaningful distinctions among them*.
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**Finding: this test has never been run as such.** The closest artifacts
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cover fragments — `personhood-dimensions-map.md` §3 profiles five entities
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on three coarse axes; thought experiments each stress one entity class.
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No document applies the full vocabulary (B1–B8, P1–P12, continuity
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channels, addressability/recognition, Agent/Sp./Gh. descriptors) across
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all nine and checks that the distinctions survive. The program's own
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success criterion is currently **asserted, not exercised** (→ G2).
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## 3. Gap register
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| ID | Gap | Source | Addressable now? |
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| **G1** | No principled weighting/sufficiency scheme for the B-, P-, and continuity profiles; "sufficient personhood," "enough closure," and continuity thresholds are undefined wherever they are load-bearing | RQ1, RQ2, RQ5 (OQ-043); paper §17 item 2 | **Yes** — conceptual work, no dependency |
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| **G2** | Success-criterion coverage matrix (nine entity types × full vocabulary) never produced | INTENT success criterion | **Yes** — synthesis of existing material |
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| **G3** | Soul packaging unresolved: relations vs consequences vs both; Cluster D formal depth | RQ4 remainder, flagged **paper-critical** | **Yes** — bounded concept work |
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| G4 | Metrics instruments scoped but not built (B3, psychological continuity) | WP-0010 residual | **Gated** — open decision `0401cf28`; do not start without resolution |
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| G5 | Companion line items 2–4 (moral status survey, non-derivation statement, jurisdictional tracking) | Charter | **Gated** — charter's own next-step rule; slice-by-slice |
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| G6 | Paper not yet circulated; internal-review stage depends on coulomb-research being operational | WP-0009-T06 decision | **Blocked externally** — facility still being set up |
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| G7 | Thin coverage: WS11 (death/persistence depth), WS13 fiction set breadth, hybrid display conventions, eval harnesses | §17 item 6; RQ7/RQ8 residuals | Yes, but low urgency — none is load-bearing for the paper |
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## 4. Ranking — most relevant gaps
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**G1, G2, G3**, in that order, are the gaps worth addressing now:
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- **G1** is the deepest structural debt: every profile the framework
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introduces ends in "weighting and thresholds open." Determination 6a
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cannot be claimed while the framework has no stated position on
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aggregation — even a principled *refusal* to weight (context-of-claim
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relativity) would be a position; silence is not.
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- **G2** is the cheapest high-value item: it directly exercises the
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success criterion, likely surfaces vocabulary strain exactly where
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INTENT predicts it (distributed AI, radically non-human), and produces
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the paper's strongest possible exhibit.
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- **G3** is the only remaining item OpenQuestions marks paper-critical.
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- G4–G6 are gated or blocked by design; G7 is real but not urgent.
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**Disposition:** G1–G3 are picked up by **SOUL-WP-0011** (created with this
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assessment). G4–G6 stay with their existing gates. G7 remains in
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OpenQuestions/§17 as agenda, not debt.
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id: SOUL-WP-0011
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type: workplan
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title: "Phase X — Sufficiency/weighting position, success-criterion coverage matrix, and Soul packaging"
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domain: agents
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repo: soul-frame
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status: active
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origin: assessment
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origin_ref: history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md
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owner: claude
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topic_slug: soul-frame
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priority: medium
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created: "2026-09-28"
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updated: "2026-09-28"
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depends_on:
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- SOUL-WP-0010
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# SOUL-WP-0011 — Phase X: Sufficiency, Coverage, and Soul Packaging
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## Goal
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Close the three gaps the 2026-09-28 scope-vs-intent assessment
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(`history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md`) ranked as most relevant
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and addressable now:
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- **G1** — the framework has no stated position on weighting/sufficiency
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for its B-, P-, and continuity profiles, though thresholds are
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load-bearing in Beinghood v0.2 and across the TE catalog.
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- **G2** — INTENT's success criterion (one vocabulary across nine
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reference entity types, with meaningful distinctions) has never been
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exercised as an explicit test.
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- **G3** — Soul packaging (relations vs consequences vs both) is the last
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remaining paper-critical open item (RQ4).
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## Tasks
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### T01 — Sufficiency and weighting position paper
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```task
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id: SOUL-WP-0011-T01
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status: todo
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priority: high
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```
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Write `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md`: a principled
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position on how (or whether) B1–B8, P1–P12, and the six continuity
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channels aggregate into sufficiency judgments ("enough personhood for
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Beinghood v0.2", "CONTINUOUS vs DEGRADED"). A principled refusal of
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universal weights (context-of-claim relativity) is an acceptable outcome
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if argued; silence is not. Must state consequences for Beinghood v0.2
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phrasing and the TE working judgments that lean on thresholds.
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**Done when:** the note exists, takes one defended position, and
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`OpenQuestions.md` RQ1/RQ2/RQ5 weighting bullets reference it.
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### T02 — Success-criterion coverage matrix
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```task
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id: SOUL-WP-0011-T02
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status: todo
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priority: high
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```
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Write `research/coverage-matrix.md`: apply the full vocabulary (B-profile,
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P-profile, continuity channels, addressability/recognition,
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Agent/Sp./Gh. descriptors) to all nine INTENT reference entity types in
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one matrix, with per-entity notes on where the vocabulary strains.
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Distinctions must be *meaningful*: every pair of entity types must differ
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on at least one dimension, stated explicitly or derivable from the matrix.
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**Done when:** the matrix covers all nine types, strain points are named,
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and the note gives an explicit pass/partial verdict on the success
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criterion, cross-referenced from `INTENT.md`'s success-criterion section
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readers via SCOPE.md.
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### T03 — Soul packaging resolution
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```task
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id: SOUL-WP-0011-T03
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status: todo
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priority: medium
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```
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Resolve RQ4's remainder: does "Soul" package relations, consequences
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(persistent influence), or both — and how does Cluster D inheritance
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(Gh. inheriting Soul-relational structure without identity) survive the
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chosen packaging? Update `concepts/soul.md` with the outcome and mark the
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RQ4 remainder resolved or narrowed in `OpenQuestions.md`.
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**Done when:** `concepts/soul.md` states the packaging position with
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rationale, and RQ4's "still open (paper-critical)" block reflects it.
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