Complete SOUL-WP-0009: resolve RQ4 and publication pathway, deliver T02-T05

- T01 (RQ4): retain "Soul" - resolved with operator; Terminology.md,
  concepts/soul.md, OpenQuestions.md, Claims.md, paper/draft.md updated.
- T02: lexicographic continuity-weighting procedure in concepts/identity.md,
  validated against TE-02/03/04/08.
- T03: testable Being-vs-Social-Being boundary (three-part recognition test)
  in concepts/recognition.md and concepts/being.md, validated against
  TE-05/09.
- T04: research/metrics-scoping-note.md - per-axis measurability scoping.
- T05: research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md - bounded
  companion-line charter, explicitly not the mapping itself.
- T06: publication pathway resolved with operator - internal circulation
  only, as paper-one for coulomb-research, following the same staged
  trajectory as coulomb-research's own paper-zero.

Marks SOUL-WP-0009 finished. Opens SOUL-WP-0010 (proposed, not started) to
carry forward the two multi-step residuals from T04/T05.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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@ -40,6 +40,44 @@ Recognition alone does not create systemic individuality (RN-001 Finding 10).
> distinguish it, address it, expect continuity from it, maintain models of it,
> and enter persistent relationships with it.
## Testable boundary: Being vs. Social Being (SOUL-WP-0009-T03, resolved 2026-09-28)
**Boundary condition:** Social Beinghood begins, for a given recognizer,
the moment that recognizer holds a **persistent, addressable model** of the
candidate across more than one interaction episode — not merely a one-off
epistemic classification. Concretely, three things must hold simultaneously
on at least one side of the relation:
1. **Intentional recognition** — the recognizer treats the candidate as an
agent with goals/beliefs, not just a classified pattern.
2. **Addressability** — the recognizer can specifically target the same
candidate again (name, ID, channel), not just re-classify a similar one.
3. **Model persistence across episodes** — the recognizer's model of the
candidate carries over from one interaction to the next (expectations,
history, revisable beliefs about it), rather than being recomputed from
scratch each time.
**Reciprocity is explicitly not required to start it** (TE-09): the three
conditions above need to hold for only *one* party. A single Being's
persistent, addressable, intentional model of an otherwise-unrecognizing
system is sufficient to open Social Beinghood on that Being's side of the
relation — this is what makes the asymmetric case in `paper/draft.md` §1
and §5 well-formed rather than circular.
**What this rules out:** a system that is epistemically classified fresh
each time (no model persistence) is not Socially a Being to that recognizer,
however accurately it is classified — this is the stateless-agent case
(TE-01) restated from the recognizer's side. A system recognized once and
never modeled again likewise does not cross the boundary.
**Nested/collective test (TE-05):** apply the same three-part test
independently at each candidate level. A collective can be Socially a Being
at the collective level (some recognizer holds a persistent, addressable,
intentional model of *the collective as one thing*) without that implying
or requiring Social Beinghood at the member level, and vice versa — the
levels are tested separately, not inherited automatically in either
direction.
## TE-09 (summary)
Unrecognized coherent intelligence can be an autonomous individual without