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.

ThoughtExperiments.md

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+# Thought Experiment Catalog
+
+Adversarial test suite for Soul Frame definitions. Each case should force a clear
+answer (or a principled inability to answer) in terms of Being, identity, personhood,
+Soul, recognition, etc.
+
+Template:
+
+```text
+ID:
+Name:
+Setup:
+Target concepts:
+Intended stress:
+Working judgment:
+Open issues:
+Related claims / questions:
+```
+
+---
+
+## TE-01 — The Stateless Agent
+
+```text
+ID: TE-01
+Name: The Stateless Agent
+Setup: Highly intelligent system recreated from scratch every interaction;
+       no cross-session memory or identity continuity.
+Target concepts: Being, identity, continuity, personhood
+Intended stress: Intelligence without persistence
+Working judgment: (pending)
+Open issues: Is addressability within a session enough? Can recognition create
+             illusory continuity?
+Related claims / questions: H1, H2, RQ1, RQ5
+```
+
+## TE-02 — The Sleeping Being
+
+```text
+ID: TE-02
+Name: The Sleeping Being
+Setup: An artificial Being remains offline for ten years and is restored unchanged.
+Target concepts: operational death, identity, continuity, social death
+Intended stress: Suspension vs cessation
+Working judgment: (pending)
+Open issues: Does dormancy interrupt Beinghood? Does social memory matter?
+Related claims / questions: H6, RQ5, death/legacy terminology
+```
+
+## TE-03 — The Fork
+
+```text
+ID: TE-03
+Name: The Fork
+Setup: A Being is copied perfectly; both copies continue independently.
+Target concepts: identity, continuity, Soul, recognition
+Intended stress: Branching identity; originality
+Working judgment: (pending)
+Open issues: One Being becoming two? Shared past, divergent futures?
+Related claims / questions: H6, RQ5
+```
+
+## TE-04 — The Ship of Theseus
+
+```text
+ID: TE-04
+Name: The Ship of Theseus
+Setup: Every technical component of an artificial Being is gradually replaced
+       (models, hosts, memory stores, tools).
+Target concepts: Actor vs Being, identity, substrate independence
+Intended stress: Continuity without fixed substrate
+Working judgment: (pending)
+Open issues: Which continuity metrics matter? Gradual vs sudden replacement?
+Related claims / questions: H6
+```
+
+## TE-05 — The Collective
+
+```text
+ID: TE-05
+Name: The Collective
+Setup: A thousand agents jointly maintain one coherent identity and relational
+       presence.
+Target concepts: Being, boundary, closure, addressability
+Intended stress: One Being or many?
+Working judgment: (pending)
+Open issues: Internal multiplicity vs external unity
+Related claims / questions: RQ1, H1
+```
+
+## TE-06 — The Mask
+
+```text
+ID: TE-06
+Name: The Mask
+Setup: A single system maintains radically different Personae for different people.
+Target concepts: Persona, identity, character, recognition
+Intended stress: When persona fragmentation threatens identity
+Working judgment: (pending)
+Open issues: Deception vs legitimate role diversity
+Related claims / questions: H8, RQ7
+```
+
+## TE-07 — The False Ghost
+
+```text
+ID: TE-07
+Name: The False Ghost
+Setup: A highly accurate representation of a deceased person is produced without
+       consent or legitimate authority.
+Target concepts: Ghost (Gh.), Spirit (Sp.), authority, recognition
+Intended stress: Technical fidelity without legitimacy
+Working judgment: Technically ghost-like appearance does not yield Gh. status
+                   under working definitions; classify as unauthorized simulation
+                   or illicit Spirit-like construct. (provisional)
+Open issues: Legal vs Soul Frame categories; public figures
+Related claims / questions: H10, RQ8
+```
+
+## TE-08 — The Amnesiac
+
+```text
+ID: TE-08
+Name: The Amnesiac
+Setup: A Being loses nearly all autobiographical memory but maintains relationships
+       and recognition by others.
+Target concepts: identity, memory, Soul, social continuity
+Intended stress: Memory vs relational continuity
+Working judgment: (pending)
+Open issues: Which continuity strand is decisive?
+Related claims / questions: RQ5, memory/relationship workstream
+```
+
+## TE-09 — The Unrecognized Intelligence
+
+```text
+ID: TE-09
+Name: The Unrecognized Intelligence
+Setup: A highly coherent alien informational system exists; neither humans nor the
+       system initially recognize the other as beings.
+Target concepts: Being, recognition, social Beinghood
+Intended stress: Whether Beinghood requires recognition
+Working judgment: (pending)
+Open issues: systemic existence vs social recognition of existence
+Related claims / questions: H7, RQ6
+```
+
+---
+
+## Adding new experiments
+
+Prefer cases that:
+
+1. isolate one contested distinction,
+2. admit at least two plausible Soul Frame answers,
+3. and force refinement of a definition or claim.