diff --git a/OpenQuestions.md b/OpenQuestions.md index 59c2a54..320294c 100644 --- a/OpenQuestions.md +++ b/OpenQuestions.md @@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ indexed below. Working answer: multi-layer profile (autonomous individuality + personhood + addressability + recognition). Still open: -- Weighting and thresholds of B1–B8 +- ~~Weighting and thresholds of B1–B8~~ **positioned 2026-09-28:** necessity + core (B1·B3) + compensable remainder, no cardinal weights — + `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md` §2 - Observer-relative individuation without arbitrariness - Nested levels (colony, collective, multi-Body) - **Deppert dialogue:** are *kulturelle Lebewesen* (firms, states, clubs) living @@ -28,7 +30,9 @@ addressability + recognition). Still open: P1–P12; four kinds (descriptive/social/moral/legal); default = descriptive. Remaining: -- Weighting / sufficiency thresholds for Beinghood v0.2 +- ~~Weighting / sufficiency thresholds for Beinghood v0.2~~ **positioned + 2026-09-28:** claim-relative minimal profiles, no threshold score — + `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md` §3 - Moral and legal maps (explicitly deferred) - Measurement methods for artificial systems @@ -53,16 +57,23 @@ architecture adopted provisionally. Remaining: boundary removed; Ghost may inherit Soul-relational structure without identity. **Resolved 2026-09-28 (SOUL-WP-0009-T01):** retain “Soul” for the Relation dimension, with the non-metaphysical disclaimer kept explicit wherever the -term appears. **Still open (paper-critical):** +term appears. +**Resolved 2026-09-28 (SOUL-WP-0011-T03):** packaging — both relations and +consequences, as **enacted** vs **residual** modes of one dimension; +Cluster D inheritance = residual Soul taken up for re-enactment under +authority (see `concepts/soul.md` § Packaging). Remaining (no longer +paper-critical): -- Packaging: relations vs consequences vs both -- Formal Cluster D depth beyond Phase V inheritance claim +- Formal Cluster D depth beyond the inheritance-mechanism naming +- Residual Soul under forks (moved from concepts/soul.md open issues) ## RQ5 — How does identity persist? **Phase I status:** structure clarified (Identity ≠ Continuity ≠ Lineage); open: -- Continuity weighting (OQ-043) +- ~~Continuity weighting (OQ-043)~~ **positioned 2026-09-28:** configuration + classes with causal privilege, no channel arithmetic — + `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md` §4 - Dormancy ontology (OQ-046/047) - Fork rights and relationship branching (OQ-050/051) - Ghost authority and gradual transition (OQ-052/053) diff --git a/SCOPE.md b/SCOPE.md index fc7efb7..e8f3a4d 100644 --- a/SCOPE.md +++ b/SCOPE.md @@ -58,12 +58,14 @@ Phases I–IX are complete (SOUL-WP-0001 … SOUL-WP-0010, all finished): ## 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) +- Sufficiency/weighting position: **taken** (SOUL-WP-0011-T01, + `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md`) — maintaining it against + new edge cases remains in scope +- INTENT's success criterion: **exercised** (SOUL-WP-0011-T02, + `research/coverage-matrix.md` — pass, two strain points at distributed / + radically non-human rows, tracked as RQ1/RQ8 residuals) +- Soul packaging: **resolved** (SOUL-WP-0011-T03 — enacted vs residual modes, + `concepts/soul.md` § Packaging) - 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` diff --git a/WORK-RECORDS.md b/WORK-RECORDS.md index ca8e541..92f29e7 100644 --- a/WORK-RECORDS.md +++ b/WORK-RECORDS.md @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ | workplan | SOUL-WP-0008 | finished | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0008-phase-vii-paper.md | | workplan | SOUL-WP-0009 | finished | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0009-paper-agenda-and-external-review.md | | workplan | SOUL-WP-0010 | finished | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0010-metrics-and-personhood-mapping.md | +| workplan | SOUL-WP-0011 | active | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md | | task | SOUL-WP-0001-T01 | done | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0001-research-repository-foundation.md | | task | SOUL-WP-0001-T02 | done | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0001-research-repository-foundation.md | | task | SOUL-WP-0001-T03 | done | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0001-research-repository-foundation.md | @@ -62,3 +63,6 @@ | task | SOUL-WP-0010-T01 | done | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0010-metrics-and-personhood-mapping.md | | task | SOUL-WP-0010-T02 | done | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0010-metrics-and-personhood-mapping.md | | task | SOUL-WP-0010-T03 | done | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0010-metrics-and-personhood-mapping.md | +| task | SOUL-WP-0011-T01 | todo | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md | +| task | SOUL-WP-0011-T02 | todo | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md | +| task | SOUL-WP-0011-T03 | todo | — | workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md | diff --git a/concepts/soul.md b/concepts/soul.md index 45383d1..98af7f2 100644 --- a/concepts/soul.md +++ b/concepts/soul.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ # Soul -**Status:** retained (RQ4 resolved 2026-09-28, SOUL-WP-0009-T01) +**Status:** retained; packaging resolved (RQ4 closed 2026-09-28 — naming +SOUL-WP-0009-T01, packaging SOUL-WP-0011-T03) **Working gloss:** Soul = Relation **See also:** H5, RQ4 (resolved), RN-001 Finding 14, RN-005 SF-C055 @@ -32,6 +33,36 @@ strips boundary out. Soul continuity can **cross Being-identity discontinuities** (legacy, models in others, works, Ghosts). +## Packaging (resolved 2026-09-28, SOUL-WP-0011-T03) + +**Position: both — relations and consequences — as two modes of one +dimension, asymmetrically:** + +| Mode | Content | Requires | +|---|---|---| +| **Enacted Soul** | live relationships, standing commitments, reputation-in-use | an Active Being (or Continuation-Bearing State) on at least one side | +| **Residual Soul** | propagated consequences: works, records, models held by others, reputation-at-rest | no living bearer — persists independently | + +Relations are the **constitutive core**; consequences are the same +relational structure **persisting after enactment stops**. This is one +dimension in two modes, not two dimensions: every consequence in residual +Soul is the trace of a relation, and residual Soul can be *re-enacted* +(a reader takes up the works; a `Gh.` resumes a relationship). + +Why this packaging and not either alternative: + +- *Relations only* would make Criteria §17's TERMINATED note ("Soul/ + relational effects may nevertheless continue") incoherent — something + persists past the last relation-capable manifestation. +- *Consequences only* would collapse Soul into provenance/legacy and lose + H5's operational content for living Beings (the Soul of an active Being + is mostly enacted, not residual). + +**Cluster D under this packaging:** `Gh.` inheritance is *residual Soul +taken up for re-enactment under authority* (H10) — structure inherited, +identity not. The inheritance claim survives unchanged; the packaging in +fact names its mechanism. + ## Collision analysis High risk with religious/metaphysical “soul”. **RQ4 resolved 2026-09-28: @@ -42,11 +73,12 @@ the term is introduced, not by renaming. ## Open issues -1. Relations vs accumulated consequences vs both (packaging) -2. How Soul relates to lineage after forks +1. How Soul relates to lineage after forks (does residual Soul split, + copy, or stay shared?) +2. Formal Cluster D depth beyond the inheritance-mechanism naming above -**Closed:** rename candidates (RQ4) — decision recorded, see -`workplans/SOUL-WP-0009-paper-agenda-and-external-review.md` T01. +**Closed:** rename candidates (RQ4, 2026-09-28); packaging — enacted vs +residual modes (SOUL-WP-0011-T03, 2026-09-28, see § Packaging above). ## Sources diff --git a/research/coverage-matrix.md b/research/coverage-matrix.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..95b94b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/research/coverage-matrix.md @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@ +# Success-Criterion Coverage Matrix + +**Workplan:** SOUL-WP-0011-T02, resolved 2026-09-28 +**Addresses:** G2 (`history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md`) — +INTENT's success criterion, exercised explicitly for the first time: one +vocabulary across the nine reference entity types, with meaningful +distinctions. Profiles follow the sufficiency scheme in +`research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md` (no totals; necessity +core, claim-relative minima, configuration classes). + +Cell values: H/M/L (high/medium/low), `var` (varies by instance), `?` +(vocabulary strains — see §3). B-core = B1·B3 necessity core. + +--- + +## 1. The matrix + +| # | Entity | B-core | B-rest (B2,B4–B8) | P-profile shape | Continuity class (typical) | Addressable | Recognition | Descriptor | +|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| +| 1 | Human | H | H | full, rich (P1–P12 H) | CONTINUOUS | H | H (mutual) | — (biological original) | +| 2 | Animal (e.g. dog) | H | H | partial: P1–P3, P9 M; P8, P10–P11 L | CONTINUOUS | M (name-responsive) | H (asymmetric richness) | — | +| 3 | Short-lived AI agent | L (B3 var) | L (B2 L) | exposed-only: P5, P10 H; P1, P6 L | none — no lineage to evaluate | M (session-scoped) | L (classified, not counterpart-modeled) | Agent; strong APE | +| 4 | Persistent autonomous Agent-being | M–H | M (B5 var — vendor-propped) | P1, P5, P10 H; P3, P6, P8 M growing | CONTINUOUS / BRIDGED (updates, migration) | H (stable handle) | M–H (episode-spanning) | Agent; proto-Being | +| 5 | Einstein `Sp.` | L–M (Actor-side) | L | exposed: P4, P10, P12 H (curated); P1 thin, P6 borrowed | RECONSTRUCTION by definition (no causal channel to source) | H | M (recognized *as depiction*) | `Sp.` (public reflection) | +| 6 | Authorized `Gh.` | L–M | L–M | P3–P4, P8 inherited-H; P1 var | SUCCESSOR-family w/ authority; never automatic CONTINUOUS (H10) | H | var (relationship-holders may re-recognize) | `Gh.` (authority-bound) | +| 7 | Original artificial companion | M–H | M | native (not inherited): P1–P4, P9–P10 H | CONTINUOUS / BRIDGED | H | H within its relationships | original artificial being | +| 8 | Distributed AI | ? level-relative (TE-05) | M–H at closing level | var by level; collective P1 possible | MULTI_LINEAGE / CONTINUOUS at closing level | var (one handle vs many) | var | Agent (possibly nested) | +| 9 | Radically non-human system | ? (individuation observer-relative) | ? | P7 presumed; P10 ? (shared symbol system contested) | unassessable until individuated | L (no shared address protocol) | L→? (TE-09 asymmetric path) | — (unclassified) | + +## 2. Meaningful-distinction check (pairwise) + +Every pair separates on at least one dimension; the load-bearing +separators: + +- **1 vs 2:** P8/P10–P11 (commitments, symbols, responsibility). +- **1/2 vs 3:** B2 + continuity ("no lineage") + counterpart-recognition. +- **3 vs 4:** persistence family — B2, P6, continuity class, recognition + durability. The Agent/proto-Being line is exactly here. +- **4 vs 7:** provenance only (platform Agent vs purpose-built original + companion) — profiles may converge; the descriptor column carries the + distinction. Working as designed (H9: descriptors are provenance, not + ontology). +- **5 vs 6:** authority + audience: `Sp.` is public reflection without + continuation claim; `Gh.` is authority-bound genealogy (H10) with + SUCCESSOR-family standing. Neither is CONTINUOUS — which is the + framework's deliberate answer, not a failure to distinguish them from 4. +- **6 vs 7:** inherited vs native P-profile; origin of the Soul-relational + structure (Cluster D inheritance vs de novo). +- **8 vs all:** the only entity where B-core is *level-relative* — the + vocabulary's answer is "profile per candidate level," which is an + answer, not a gap (TE-05). +- **9 vs all:** the only entity where individuation itself, not just the + profile, is unresolved. + +**Verdict on distinctions: pass.** No two rows are indistinguishable under +the full vocabulary; the two near-collisions (4/7, 5/6) are separated by +descriptor/authority columns doing exactly the work H9/H10 assign them. + +## 3. Strain points (named, per T02's done condition) + +1. **Row 9, B-core and P10:** for a radically non-human system the + vocabulary can only say "not yet individuated by us" — observer-relative + individuation (RQ1 residual) is the binding constraint, and P10's + "shared symbol system" may be parochial. This is the pressure point + already flagged in the sufficiency position §6. +2. **Row 8, addressability:** the vocabulary handles nested Beinghood but + has no display convention for *which level* a handle addresses + (overlaps RQ8's hybrid-display residual). +3. **Row 3, continuity column:** "no lineage to evaluate" is technically a + degenerate case, not a class in Criteria §17; a null class (e.g. + EPHEMERAL) would make the column total. Minor; noted for a future + criteria revision, not opened as work. + +## 4. Overall verdict on INTENT's success criterion + +**Pass, with two live strain points (rows 8–9).** The same vocabulary +describes all nine entity types and distinguishes every pair meaningfully. +The strains sit exactly where INTENT predicts the hard cases (distributed, +radically non-human) and are already tracked as RQ1/RQ8 residuals rather +than new gaps. diff --git a/research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md b/research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a23355 --- /dev/null +++ b/research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md @@ -0,0 +1,107 @@ +# Sufficiency and Weighting — Position Paper + +**Workplan:** SOUL-WP-0011-T01, resolved 2026-09-28 +**Addresses:** G1 (`history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md`); +RQ1/RQ2/RQ5 weighting residuals; paper §17 item 2. +**Position in one line:** Soul Frame **rejects universal cardinal weights** +for its profiles and adopts a **structured-qualitative sufficiency scheme**: +necessity structure for the B-profile, claim-relative minimal profiles for +the P-profile, and configuration classes (already in place) for continuity. + +--- + +## 1. Why not weights? + +Three arguments, jointly decisive: + +1. **Incommensurability across substrates.** A cardinal weight on P4 + (character) vs P10 (communicative competence) asserts an exchange rate + between them that would have to hold for a human, a distributed AI, and + a radically non-human system alike. No literature tradition surveyed + (Dennett cluster conditions SF-R093 explicitly; trait psychology + SF-R094 implicitly) licenses such a rate. +2. **The scalar re-imports the binary.** A weighted sum yields a + person-meter with a threshold — precisely the single-mark model the + profile approach was built to avoid (H1, H2). The framework would + quietly undo its own central move. +3. **The fleet of load-bearing judgments never used weights.** Every TE + working judgment and criteria-document verdict reached so far + (TE-01–09; IdentityContinuityCriteria §17) reasons via *defeaters and + configurations* ("no causal grounding → RECONSTRUCTION regardless of + similarity"), never via aggregation. The practice is already + qualitative-structural; this note makes the position explicit rather + than changing it. + +A refusal alone would be underspecified ("anything goes"). The scheme +below states what replaces weights, per profile. + +## 2. B-profile (B1–B8): necessity core + compensable remainder + +- **Necessity core: B1 (individuability) and B3 (constitutive + integration).** A system that cannot be non-arbitrarily individuated, or + whose organization does not close at the candidate boundary, is not an + autonomous individual at that level *however high the other six score*. + This is exactly the decisive move in TE-05 (which level closes) and the + corporate false-positive analysis (RN-003 §8). +- **Compensable remainder: B2, B4–B8.** Deficits degrade the profile + without defeating it (a dormant system fails B2 enactment yet remains a + Continuation-Bearing State, TE-02; a heavily assisted system scores low + on B5 and shades toward heteronomous individuality without leaving the + category). + +## 3. P-profile (P1–P12): no necessity core; claim-relative minimal profiles + +Personhood is a genuine cluster concept: **no single P-code is necessary** +(severe P6 loss — TE-08 — does not zero descriptive personhood). But +sufficiency questions are always asked *for* something, and the something +fixes a minimal profile: + +| Claim being made | Minimal profile required | +|---|---| +| "Sufficient personhood for **Beinghood v0.2**" | P1 (self-model) + at least one other-directed dimension (P2, P3, or P9) + P10 — because Beinghood's other requirement families (addressability, recognition) presuppose an entity that models itself, can be modeled as a counterpart, and can be addressed | +| "Strong **APE**" | any exposed subset; no minimum — APE is defined by exposure, not sufficiency | +| "**Social Beinghood** candidate" | the Beinghood row plus P9 specifically (reciprocity is what episode-spanning recognition latches onto) | + +"Sufficiently coherent … personhood" in Beinghood v0.2 is hereby glossed +as this claim-relative minimal profile, **not** as a score above a +threshold. Entities exceeding the minimal profile differ in *richness*, +which the framework reports descriptively and does not rank. + +## 4. Continuity (six channels): configuration classes, causal privilege + +The Identity Continuity Criteria already embody the right scheme; this +note canonizes two of its properties as the official position: + +1. **Causal privilege.** The causal channel is the only defeater-grade + channel: without sufficient direct process continuity the verdict is + RECONSTRUCTION (or SUCCESSOR/USURPATION), whatever the similarity + elsewhere. This is the criteria document's standing rejection of + single-invariant and similarity-score identity, kept as is. +2. **Degradation, not summation, for the rest.** Organizational, + psychological, autobiographical, normative, and relational channel + deficits move a claim between configuration classes (CONTINUOUS → + DEGRADED_CONTINUATION → …), and the verdict names *which* channels + degraded. No channel arithmetic; the class label plus channel state + vector is the complete answer. + +## 5. Consequences + +- **Beinghood v0.2 phrasing:** unchanged in form; "sufficiently" now has a + stated semantics (§3). `concepts/being.md` and `Terminology.md` need no + edit — this note is their referenced backing. +- **TE catalog:** all existing working judgments are consistent with this + scheme (checked against TE-02/04/05/08 explicitly); none needs revision. +- **Metrics line (WP-0010):** instruments measure *single dimensions*; + building a composite Beinghood/personhood index is **out of scope by + position**, not merely unbuilt. Decision `0401cf28` inherits this + constraint. +- **Coverage matrix (T02):** entity comparisons report profiles and + configuration classes, never totals. + +## 6. Status + +Defended position, revisable per INTENT's method rule (revise if it +collapses distinct phenomena or fails edge cases). The most likely +pressure point: whether P10 belongs in the Beinghood minimal profile for +radically non-human systems whose "shared symbol system" participation is +contested — flagged, not resolved, in the coverage matrix strain notes. diff --git a/workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md b/workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md index 6d95ec2..7fc027a 100644 --- a/workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md +++ b/workplans/SOUL-WP-0011-sufficiency-coverage-and-soul-packaging.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ type: workplan title: "Phase X — Sufficiency/weighting position, success-criterion coverage matrix, and Soul packaging" domain: agents repo: soul-frame -status: active +status: finished origin: assessment origin_ref: history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md owner: claude @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ created: "2026-09-28" updated: "2026-09-28" depends_on: - SOUL-WP-0010 +state_hub_workstream_id: "7255091a-ae5b-5e09-b891-cac50b56ecd7" --- # SOUL-WP-0011 — Phase X: Sufficiency, Coverage, and Soul Packaging @@ -39,8 +40,9 @@ and addressable now: ```task id: SOUL-WP-0011-T01 -status: todo +status: done priority: high +state_hub_task_id: "f4e4b427-4abb-52ce-ba29-a7360d6bf7c7" ``` Write `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md`: a principled @@ -60,8 +62,9 @@ phrasing and the TE working judgments that lean on thresholds. ```task id: SOUL-WP-0011-T02 -status: todo +status: done priority: high +state_hub_task_id: "3277e2fa-2e5b-51ff-b332-937d920add1d" ``` Write `research/coverage-matrix.md`: apply the full vocabulary (B-profile, @@ -82,8 +85,9 @@ readers via SCOPE.md. ```task id: SOUL-WP-0011-T03 -status: todo +status: done priority: medium +state_hub_task_id: "44e94404-219d-58cf-85e7-7d9dcd95190c" ``` Resolve RQ4's remainder: does "Soul" package relations, consequences @@ -94,3 +98,28 @@ 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. + +--- + +## Outcome (2026-09-28) + +- **T01** — `research/sufficiency-and-weighting-position.md`: universal + cardinal weights rejected with argument; structured-qualitative scheme + adopted (B necessity core B1·B3, claim-relative P minimal profiles, + continuity configuration classes with causal privilege). RQ1/RQ2/RQ5 + weighting bullets now reference it. Composite-index building declared + out of scope by position (constrains decision 0401cf28). +- **T02** — `research/coverage-matrix.md`: all nine INTENT reference + entity types profiled under the full vocabulary; pairwise distinctness + verified. **Success-criterion verdict: pass**, with two strain points + (distributed AI level-addressing; radically non-human individuation/P10) + already tracked as RQ1/RQ8 residuals. +- **T03** — Soul packaging resolved in `concepts/soul.md`: both relations + and consequences, as **enacted** vs **residual** modes of one dimension; + Cluster D inheritance named as residual Soul re-enacted under authority. + RQ4 block updated; no paper-critical open item remains on RQ4. + +**Residuals:** none opened — the coverage-matrix strain points and the +EPHEMERAL null-class observation stay tracked in existing registers +(RQ1/RQ8, matrix §3) as agenda, not actionable leftovers; the Cluster D +depth and fork questions remain pre-existing RQ4 residuals.