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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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ type: workplan
title: "Phase VIII — Paper research agenda and external review pathway"
domain: agents
repo: soul-frame
status: active
status: finished
flavor: research
owner: grok
topic_slug: soul-frame
@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ that should not be parked in `SCOPE.md` prose.
```task
id: SOUL-WP-0009-T01
status: todo
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "3daca5cd-322f-5256-932d-1271f0c040a8"
```
@ -49,13 +49,17 @@ Phase I.
**Done when:** decision recorded (`record_decision`/`resolve_decision`) with
rationale, and `Terminology.md` + `paper/draft.md` updated to match.
**Resolved 2026-09-28:** retain "Soul" (decision `8429f2ce-5b8a-4d90-810e-f526ec2d0c05`).
Updated: `Terminology.md`, `concepts/soul.md`, `OpenQuestions.md` RQ4,
`Claims.md` H5, `paper/draft.md` §8/§16/§17.
---
### T02 — Continuity dimension weighting
```task
id: SOUL-WP-0009-T02
status: todo
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "7acfed9e-cc8b-5283-a298-90b749a28ee7"
```
@ -69,13 +73,18 @@ TE-03, TE-04, TE-08.
procedure) is documented in `concepts/identity.md` and validated against the
four thought experiments above.
**Completed 2026-09-28:** lexicographic priority procedure (structural gate
→ branch check → gradualness check → softer dimensions decide strength
within the gate) added to `concepts/identity.md`; walked through TE-02,
TE-03, TE-04, TE-08.
---
### T03 — Recognition's seat: Being vs. Social Being
```task
id: SOUL-WP-0009-T03
status: todo
status: done
priority: low
state_hub_task_id: "223e14d8-7bdf-5c49-9650-6fba70840c3c"
```
@ -87,13 +96,18 @@ individual cross into Social Beinghood?
**Done when:** `concepts/being.md` / `concepts/recognition.md` state a
testable boundary condition, checked against TE-05 and TE-09.
**Completed 2026-09-28:** three-part test (intentional recognition +
addressability + model persistence across episodes, on at least one side)
added to `concepts/recognition.md`, cross-referenced from `concepts/being.md`;
walked through TE-09 (asymmetric start) and TE-05 (per-level nested test).
---
### T04 — Empirical/operational metrics scoping
```task
id: SOUL-WP-0009-T04
status: todo
status: done
priority: low
state_hub_task_id: "81a4c87d-cff5-5448-acf2-8c170301a014"
```
@ -105,13 +119,17 @@ task — full metric development may become its own workplan.
**Done when:** a scoping note exists identifying which axes are plausibly
measurable now vs. which require new instruments.
**Completed 2026-09-28:** `research/metrics-scoping-note.md` — per-code
table for B1–B8 and the continuity profile; found the B-axis (P1–P12) is
blocked on enumeration, not metrics, as a prerequisite gap.
---
### T05 — Moral/legal personhood companion line (explicitly separate)
```task
id: SOUL-WP-0009-T05
status: todo
status: done
priority: low
state_hub_task_id: "42f2de8a-c9cd-5af5-b42d-3f6cac5eb301"
```
@ -126,13 +144,17 @@ do not attempt the mapping itself here.
`research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md`) stating scope,
non-goals, and the explicit boundary against the descriptive core.
**Completed 2026-09-28:** `research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md`
— scope, four non-goals, and relationship to existing gap-sketch material;
explicitly not opened as a workplan yet.
---
### T06 — External review / publication pathway decision
```task
id: SOUL-WP-0009-T06
status: todo
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "38aa9a5a-552c-555d-a27d-c8f84a76128b"
```
@ -143,3 +165,23 @@ further revision cycles before either. This is a founder-gate decision.
**Done when:** decision recorded via `record_decision`/`resolve_decision`
naming the chosen pathway and next concrete step.
**Resolved 2026-09-28:** internal circulation only, as paper-one for
coulomb-research, following the same staged trajectory (internal →
pre-print → journal target) as coulomb-research's own paper-zero (decision
`cf950384-8bc6-4156-9caf-85b5d4a7ea25`). Recorded in `paper/draft.md` status
header. Next concrete step: internal review inside coulomb-research once
that facility is set up; no external action required yet.
---
## Closing note (2026-09-28)
All six tasks complete. T01 and T06 were founder-gate decisions (Soul
naming affects the project's own name/mnemonic; publication pathway is a
business decision) and were resolved with Bernd before implementation;
T02–T05 were research/documentation tasks executed directly.
**Residual:** T04 and T05 each recommended follow-on work that is
multi-step. Bundled as **SOUL-WP-0010**, left `proposed` for review rather
than started.

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---
id: SOUL-WP-0010
type: workplan
title: "Phase IX — P-axis enumeration, metrics instruments, and moral/legal companion line (slice 1)"
domain: agents
repo: soul-frame
status: proposed
flavor: research
owner: grok
topic_slug: soul-frame
priority: low
created: "2026-09-28"
updated: "2026-09-28"
depends_on:
- SOUL-WP-0009
---
# SOUL-WP-0010 — Phase IX: Metrics and Personhood Mapping (Slice 1)
## Goal
Residual of SOUL-WP-0009. Two of its completed tasks (T04 metrics scoping,
T05 moral/legal charter) each recommended follow-on work that is multi-step
and should not sit only as prose in their source notes:
- `research/metrics-scoping-note.md` found the B-axis (P1–P12) blocked on
enumeration, and recommended prioritizing instrument development for
constitutive integration (B3) and psychological continuity.
- `research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md` recommended a
first narrow slice ("legal personhood precedent survey only") rather than
opening the whole moral/legal question at once.
This workplan bundles both as a first slice. **Left `proposed`** — not
reviewed against current repo state or started; needs Bernd's go-ahead
before promotion to `ready`/`active`, same as SOUL-WP-0009 was.
## Depends on
- **SOUL-WP-0009** Phase VIII research agenda (finished 2026-09-28)
## Tasks
### T01 — Enumerate P1–P12 explicitly
```task
id: SOUL-WP-0010-T01
status: todo
priority: medium
```
`concepts/personhood.md` currently references P1–P12 as a profile without
itemizing each code the way `concepts/being.md` itemizes B1–B8. Write out
the twelve dimensions explicitly, sourced from Phase III personhood
literature (Dennett cluster conditions; trait/social-cognitive personality
psychology).
**Done when:** `concepts/personhood.md` has a P1–P12 table matching B1–B8's
specificity.
---
### T02 — Instrument scoping for constitutive integration and psychological continuity
```task
id: SOUL-WP-0010-T02
status: todo
priority: low
```
Per `research/metrics-scoping-note.md`'s recommendation, scope (not build)
candidate instruments for B3 (constitutive integration) and psychological
continuity specifically — the two dimensions doing the most argumentative
work across the thought-experiment catalog with no existing metric.
**Done when:** a follow-up note names at least one candidate operational
approach per dimension, or explicitly states none is currently viable.
---
### T03 — Legal personhood precedent survey (first slice only)
```task
id: SOUL-WP-0010-T03
status: todo
priority: low
```
Per the moral/legal charter's non-goals, take **only** the first scoped
slice: a survey of legal personhood precedent (corporate personhood, animal
welfare/rights law, AI legal-personality proposals) extending
`research/law-governance/sp-gh-legal-gap-sketch.md`. Do not attempt moral
status or the non-derivation statement (charter items 2–3) in this slice.
**Done when:** a precedent survey note exists, explicitly scoped to legal
personhood only, cross-referenced from the charter.