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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# Soul Frame: A Systems Vocabulary for Person-Like Informational Beings
**Status:** first research-grounded draft (SOUL-WP-0008-T02). Supersedes the
placeholder that pointed to `SoulFrameIntroduction.md`. Follows
`paper/outline.md`; sourced from `research/research-synthesis.md`,
`Terminology.md`, `concepts/*`, `Claims.md`, `ThoughtExperiments.md`, and
`paper/related-work.md`. Claims below are traceable to Hn / TE-nn / SF-Rxxx
identifiers rather than asserted freehand; open items are flagged rather than
resolved.
**Status:** first research-grounded draft (SOUL-WP-0008-T02), revised under
SOUL-WP-0009. Supersedes the placeholder that pointed to
`SoulFrameIntroduction.md`. Follows `paper/outline.md`; sourced from
`research/research-synthesis.md`, `Terminology.md`, `concepts/*`,
`Claims.md`, `ThoughtExperiments.md`, and `paper/related-work.md`. Claims
below are traceable to Hn / TE-nn / SF-Rxxx identifiers rather than asserted
freehand; open items are flagged rather than resolved.
**Publication pathway (decided 2026-09-28, SOUL-WP-0009-T06):** internal
circulation only, as **paper-one** for coulomb-research (a research
facility with a co-creation-science focus, currently being set up).
Coulomb-research's own paper-zero will run the same staged trajectory —
internal circulation → pre-print → journal target — and this paper follows
it rather than jumping ahead.
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and Maturana & Varela's operational closure (SF-R003) both motivate keeping
boundary with Being.
**Naming risk, held open (RQ4):** "Soul" collides hard with religious and
**Naming risk, resolved (RQ4):** "Soul" collides hard with religious and
folk metaphysical usage. Soul Frame's stance is informational-relational and
explicitly non-metaphysical — no claim about an immortal essence is made or
implied. The term is retained provisionally for its compactness and the
Body/Mind/Soul mnemonic, with the rename question left open rather than
resolved by this draft (§16, Limitations).
implied. As of 2026-09-28 the term is **retained** rather than renamed: the
compactness, the Body/Mind/Soul mnemonic, and the project's own name outweigh
the collision cost, provided the non-metaphysical disclaimer stays explicit
and prominent everywhere the term is introduced (decision record:
`workplans/SOUL-WP-0009-paper-agenda-and-external-review.md` T01).
**Soul-relational continuity can cross Being-identity discontinuities**: a
relationship, reputation, or set of consequences may continue in some form
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Honest accounting, carried from `research-synthesis.md` §9 and the Phase III
adversarial review still pending (SOUL-WP-0008-T03):
1. **Soul naming risk (RQ4)** is unresolved: retain-with-explicit-disclaimer
vs. rename remains open.
1. **Soul naming risk (RQ4) is resolved** (2026-09-28): retain, with an
explicit disclaimer required everywhere the term is introduced. The
residual risk is execution — the disclaimer must actually stay prominent
in every downstream use of "Soul," not a remaining open question about
which term to use.
2. **Continuity dimension weighting** is unspecified — the framework lists
dimensions (causal, organizational, psychological, etc.) without a method
for weighing conflicts between them in hard cases.
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Carried forward from `research-synthesis.md` §9 and restated as forward work
rather than resolved here:
1. Resolve RQ4 (retain vs. rename Soul).
1. ~~Resolve RQ4 (retain vs. rename Soul).~~ **Done 2026-09-28** — retained.
2. Develop a principled continuity-dimension weighting scheme.
3. Sharpen Recognition's seat in "Being" vs. "Social Being."
4. Build moral/legal personhood maps as a **separate**, explicitly-scoped