Establish Soul Frame research repository and workplans

Scaffold the research layout from the research program, add INTENT/SCOPE,
research instruments, concept stubs, and SOUL-WP-0001–0008 phase workplans.
Register the repo with State Hub under domain agents for hub-synced execution.

OpenQuestions.md

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+# Open Questions Register
+
+Questions that remain unresolved or contested. Link related entries in
+`Claims.md`, `ThoughtExperiments.md`, and `concepts/` where helpful.
+
+---
+
+## RQ1 — What constitutes a Being?
+
+- When is an informational system sufficiently coherent, bounded, persistent, and
+  recognizable to justify treating it as an individual Being?
+- Is Being binary, threshold, multidimensional degree, or some combination?
+- How does observer-relative system identification affect Beinghood?
+
+## RQ2 — What constitutes personhood?
+
+- Which characteristics cause a system to be perceived or treated as person-like?
+- How should descriptive, social, moral, and legal personhood be kept distinct?
+- Where do APE and Being diverge in practice?
+
+## RQ3 — What constitutes a Mind?
+
+- Can Mind productively be understood as adaptive model-building and control?
+- How does co-adaptive model building relate to established social-cognition work?
+- What is the minimal model apparatus for a Mind in Soul Frame?
+
+## RQ4 — What constitutes a Soul?
+
+- Can Soul be given a rigorous informational/systems meaning without metaphysics?
+- Does Soul name the boundary, the relations crossing it, accumulated consequences,
+  or a defined combination?
+- Does the term survive collision analysis, or should it be renamed?
+
+## RQ5 — How does identity persist?
+
+- What makes two temporally separated manifestations the same Being?
+- How should forks, merges, backups, migrations, and multi-manifestation be handled?
+- What continuity is necessary and sufficient when the Actor changes?
+
+## RQ6 — How does recognition create social beinghood?
+
+- Is recognition constitutive of Beinghood, or only of *social* Beinghood?
+- Can systemic existence be cleanly separated from social recognition?
+- What minimal recognition conditions matter (addressability, expectations, models)?
+
+## RQ7 — What is character?
+
+- How should state, behavior, role, persona, character, and identity be separated?
+- What makes artificial character more than stylistic imitation?
+
+## RQ8 — What kinds of artificial Being exist?
+
+- Are Agent, Spirit, and Ghost types, methods, provenance classes, or dimensions?
+- How should original artificial beings be classified relative to these?
+
+## Cross-cutting
+
+- When does memory stop being stored information and become part of continuity?
+- How should operational death, identity death, social death, and legacy interact?
+- Where do Soul Frame concepts map cleanly onto law, and where are there gaps?
+- What does fiction contribute that formal literature has not yet captured?
+
+---
+
+## Resolved / retired
+
+*(Move questions here with date and resolution pointer when closed.)*