From 5a8a5a2d2d1633b02c5f37190c6583105d986e3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: tegwick Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:38:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Assistant: claude-code Assistant-Model: sonnet Assistant-Process: 234768@bnt-lap001 Assistant-Session: 91cdb0c1-a203-431c-b542-cf192b3930a6 --- SCOPE.md | 56 ++++++++--- history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md | 68 +++++++++++++ ...sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md | 96 +++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) create mode 100644 history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md create mode 100644 workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md diff --git a/SCOPE.md b/SCOPE.md index a2b3f10..fc7efb7 100644 --- a/SCOPE.md +++ b/SCOPE.md @@ -5,14 +5,16 @@ > It is intentionally lightweight and may be incomplete. > > Aspirational charter: `INTENT.md` · Research agenda: `ResearchProgram.md` · -> Conceptual draft: `SoulFrameIntroduction.md` +> Conceptual draft: `SoulFrameIntroduction.md` · +> Scope-vs-intent gap assessment: `history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md` --- ## One-liner A systems-theoretic research program and conceptual framework for person-like -informational beings (Body = Action, Mind = Model, Soul = Relation). +informational beings (Body = Action, Mind = Model, Soul = Relation) — through +its foundational phases and holding a research-grounded paper draft. --- @@ -29,19 +31,44 @@ Central question: --- -## In Scope +## What the repo actually holds (as of 2026-09-28) -- Conceptual systems analysis of Being, Body, Mind, Soul, identity, personhood, - character, persona, actor, recognition, Agent / Spirit (`Sp.`) / Ghost (`Gh.`) -- Literature mapping across systems theory, cybernetics, philosophy of mind, - personal identity, cognitive science, sociology, AI agents, digital legacy, law, - and cultural precedents -- Research instruments: terminology standard, claim ledger, open questions, - thought experiments, concept notes, annotated bibliography -- Progressive synthesis and a research-grounded Soul Frame paper -- State Hub–indexed workplans coordinating the research sequence +Phases I–IX are complete (SOUL-WP-0001 … SOUL-WP-0010, all finished): ---- +- **Concept set** — 13 working definitions in `concepts/` plus three criteria + documents (`concepts/criteria/`), including itemized B1–B8 (autonomous + individuality) and P1–P12 (descriptive personhood) profiles +- **Research instruments** — `Terminology.md`, `Claims.md` (H1–H10, all + supported/revised through phase review), `OpenQuestions.md` (RQ1–RQ8 with + working answers; itemized OQ registers), `ThoughtExperiments.md` (TE-01–09+ + with working judgments) +- **Literature base** — `sources/bibliography.md` (SF-R### ledger), + discipline-organized maps under `research/` for all 13 workstreams touched + so far, five phase syntheses plus `research/research-synthesis.md` +- **Paper** — `paper/draft.md`: first research-grounded draft, adversarially + reviewed (SOUL-WP-0009), publication pathway decided: internal circulation + as **paper-one for coulomb-research**, then pre-print → journal +- **Companion line (moral/legal)** — charter + (`research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md`) plus first + slice executed (legal personhood precedent survey); items 2–4 unstarted +- **Metrics groundwork** — measurability scoping across all axes + (`research/metrics-scoping-note.md`) and instrument scoping for B3 + + psychological continuity; instrument *build* is founder-gated (open hub + decision `0401cf28`) + +## In Scope (current work surface) + +- Refining weighting/sufficiency questions for the B-, P-, and continuity + profiles (RQ1/RQ2/RQ5 residuals; paper §17 item 2) +- Exercising INTENT's success criterion: applying the full vocabulary across + the nine reference entity types with meaningful distinctions +- Resolving paper-critical packaging questions (e.g. Soul: relations vs + consequences, RQ4 remainder) +- Further companion-line slices (charter items 2–4) and law/governance + deepening — under the charter's own gates +- Instrument development for scoped metrics — only after decision `0401cf28` + is resolved +- Carrying the paper through the coulomb-research internal-circulation stage ## Out of Scope @@ -50,8 +77,9 @@ Central question: | Production agent runtime / harness | agent-harness, activity-core, runtime repos | | LLM provider routing and tooling | llm-connect, related infra | | Claiming to solve consciousness | philosophy programs; not a gate here | -| Silent moral/legal personhood claims | law/governance literature map only; no premature derivation | +| Silent moral/legal personhood claims | companion line only (charter-gated); no premature derivation | | Shipping product features as primary deliverable | downstream architecture repos after conceptual clarity | +| "Practical architecture for artificial beings" (INTENT det. 6b) | downstream repos; conceptual clarity feeds it, this repo does not build it | --- diff --git a/history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md b/history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f0c3d2d --- /dev/null +++ b/history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +# Scope vs. Intent — Gap Assessment (2026-09-28) + +**Context:** SCOPE.md updated the same day to reflect actual repo state +(Phases I–IX complete, SOUL-WP-0001…0010 finished). This note assesses that +state against `INTENT.md`'s standing purpose, six determinations, and +success criterion, and ranks the gaps. + +--- + +## 1. Assessment against INTENT's six determinations + +| # | INTENT: "determine…" | State | Verdict | +|---|---|---|---| +| 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 | +| 2 | what Soul Frame recombines usefully | `research/concept-crosswalk.md`, related-work §, phase syntheses | **Met** | +| 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 | +| 4 | where terminology conflicts with usage | Terminology standard; RQ4 Soul retention decided with disclaimer policy; Deppert false-friend flagged | **Met** | +| 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) | +| 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) | +| 6b | …and eventually a practical architecture | Deliberately downstream (INTENT itself: "downstream of conceptual clarity") | **Out of repo scope** — not a gap to close here | + +## 2. Assessment against the success criterion + +INTENT's success criterion: one coherent vocabulary describing **nine +reference entity types** (human, animal, short-lived AI agent, persistent +autonomous Agent-being, Einstein `Sp.`, authorized `Gh.`, original +artificial companion, distributed AI, radically non-human system) *while +still making meaningful distinctions among them*. + +**Finding: this test has never been run as such.** The closest artifacts +cover fragments — `personhood-dimensions-map.md` §3 profiles five entities +on three coarse axes; thought experiments each stress one entity class. +No document applies the full vocabulary (B1–B8, P1–P12, continuity +channels, addressability/recognition, Agent/Sp./Gh. descriptors) across +all nine and checks that the distinctions survive. The program's own +success criterion is currently **asserted, not exercised** (→ G2). + +## 3. Gap register + +| ID | Gap | Source | Addressable now? | +|---|---|---|---| +| **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 | +| **G2** | Success-criterion coverage matrix (nine entity types × full vocabulary) never produced | INTENT success criterion | **Yes** — synthesis of existing material | +| **G3** | Soul packaging unresolved: relations vs consequences vs both; Cluster D formal depth | RQ4 remainder, flagged **paper-critical** | **Yes** — bounded concept work | +| G4 | Metrics instruments scoped but not built (B3, psychological continuity) | WP-0010 residual | **Gated** — open decision `0401cf28`; do not start without resolution | +| 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 | +| 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 | +| 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 | + +## 4. Ranking — most relevant gaps + +**G1, G2, G3**, in that order, are the gaps worth addressing now: + +- **G1** is the deepest structural debt: every profile the framework + introduces ends in "weighting and thresholds open." Determination 6a + cannot be claimed while the framework has no stated position on + aggregation — even a principled *refusal* to weight (context-of-claim + relativity) would be a position; silence is not. +- **G2** is the cheapest high-value item: it directly exercises the + success criterion, likely surfaces vocabulary strain exactly where + INTENT predicts it (distributed AI, radically non-human), and produces + the paper's strongest possible exhibit. +- **G3** is the only remaining item OpenQuestions marks paper-critical. +- G4–G6 are gated or blocked by design; G7 is real but not urgent. + +**Disposition:** G1–G3 are picked up by **SOUL-WP-0011** (created with this +assessment). G4–G6 stay with their existing gates. G7 remains in +OpenQuestions/§17 as agenda, not debt. diff --git a/workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md b/workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6d95ec2 --- /dev/null +++ b/workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +--- +id: SOUL-WP-0011 +type: workplan +title: "Phase X — Sufficiency/weighting position, success-criterion coverage matrix, and Soul packaging" +domain: agents +repo: soul-frame +status: active +origin: assessment +origin_ref: history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md +owner: claude +topic_slug: soul-frame +priority: medium +created: "2026-09-28" +updated: "2026-09-28" +depends_on: + - SOUL-WP-0010 +--- + +# SOUL-WP-0011 — Phase X: Sufficiency, Coverage, and Soul Packaging + +## Goal + +Close the three gaps the 2026-09-28 scope-vs-intent assessment +(`history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md`) ranked as most relevant +and addressable now: + +- **G1** — the framework has no stated position on weighting/sufficiency + for its B-, P-, and continuity profiles, though thresholds are + load-bearing in Beinghood v0.2 and across the TE catalog. +- **G2** — INTENT's success criterion (one vocabulary across nine + reference entity types, with meaningful distinctions) has never been + exercised as an explicit test. +- **G3** — Soul packaging (relations vs consequences vs both) is the last + remaining paper-critical open item (RQ4). + +## Tasks + +### T01 — Sufficiency and weighting position paper + +```task +id: SOUL-WP-0011-T01 +status: todo +priority: high +``` + +Write `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md`: a principled +position on how (or whether) B1–B8, P1–P12, and the six continuity +channels aggregate into sufficiency judgments ("enough personhood for +Beinghood v0.2", "CONTINUOUS vs DEGRADED"). A principled refusal of +universal weights (context-of-claim relativity) is an acceptable outcome +if argued; silence is not. Must state consequences for Beinghood v0.2 +phrasing and the TE working judgments that lean on thresholds. + +**Done when:** the note exists, takes one defended position, and +`OpenQuestions.md` RQ1/RQ2/RQ5 weighting bullets reference it. + +--- + +### T02 — Success-criterion coverage matrix + +```task +id: SOUL-WP-0011-T02 +status: todo +priority: high +``` + +Write `research/coverage-matrix.md`: apply the full vocabulary (B-profile, +P-profile, continuity channels, addressability/recognition, +Agent/Sp./Gh. descriptors) to all nine INTENT reference entity types in +one matrix, with per-entity notes on where the vocabulary strains. +Distinctions must be *meaningful*: every pair of entity types must differ +on at least one dimension, stated explicitly or derivable from the matrix. + +**Done when:** the matrix covers all nine types, strain points are named, +and the note gives an explicit pass/partial verdict on the success +criterion, cross-referenced from `INTENT.md`'s success-criterion section +readers via SCOPE.md. + +--- + +### T03 — Soul packaging resolution + +```task +id: SOUL-WP-0011-T03 +status: todo +priority: medium +``` + +Resolve RQ4's remainder: does "Soul" package relations, consequences +(persistent influence), or both — and how does Cluster D inheritance +(Gh. inheriting Soul-relational structure without identity) survive the +chosen packaging? Update `concepts/soul.md` with the outcome and mark the +RQ4 remainder resolved or narrowed in `OpenQuestions.md`. + +**Done when:** `concepts/soul.md` states the packaging position with +rationale, and RQ4's "still open (paper-critical)" block reflects it.