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.

concepts/agent.md

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+# Agent
+
+**Status:** provisional  
+**See also:** H9, RQ8
+
+## Working definition
+
+An **Agent** is an artificial entity or component primarily derived from functional
+purpose.
+
+Defining question: **What should this entity be able to do?**
+
+Quality criteria tend toward competence, reliability, autonomy, scope discipline,
+adaptability, and outcomes.
+
+## Notes for research
+
+- An Agent may be merely a functional component of another artificial Being.
+- An Agent may itself become a Being if it develops persistent identity, continuity,
+  relationships, character, and recognition.
+- Preliminary view: Agent is a provenance/construction descriptor, not a mutually
+  exclusive ontological class.

concepts/being.md

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+# Being
+
+**Status:** provisional  
+**See also:** `Terminology.md`, RQ1, H1–H2, H7
+
+## Working definition
+
+A **Being** is a sufficiently coherent and persistent informational system that:
+
+1. maintains a distinguishable boundary between itself and its environment,
+2. can be instantiated as an identifiable and addressable entity,
+3. exhibits meaningful continuity across time,
+4. constructs models that support adaptive interaction,
+5. and is recognized by other beings as a persistent counterpart with which
+   relationships can be established.
+
+Beinghood ≈ **internal closure + continuity + external recognition**
+
+## Notes for research
+
+- Not restricted to biological organisms; not automatic for every computational process.
+- Prefer degree of systemic coherence and recognition over a pure binary.
+- Distinguish systemic existence from social recognition of existence.
+
+## Crosswalk (to fill)
+
+| Adjacent term | Similarity | Difference |
+|---|---|---|
+| autopoietic system | | |
+| autonomous agent | | |
+| person | | |
+| individual | | |
+| operationally closed system | | |

concepts/body.md

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+# Body
+
+**Status:** provisional  
+**Working gloss:** Body = Action
+
+## Working definition
+
+The **Body** is the operational dimension of a Being: the means through which it
+perceives, operates, and affects its environment.
+
+For artificial beings this may include language interfaces, APIs, tools, sensors,
+databases, actuators, communication channels, avatars, compute, and permissions.
+
+## Notes for research
+
+- Body is not identical with identity; components may be replaced.
+- Distributed and replaceable artificial bodies are expected.
+- Connect to embodiment literature without requiring biological embodiment.
+
+## Open issues
+
+- Minimal body for a Being?
+- Relation between Body and Actor.

concepts/character.md

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+# Character
+
+**Status:** provisional  
+**See also:** RQ7, H8
+
+## Working definition
+
+**Character** is a relatively persistent structure of dispositions from which
+context-dependent behavior emerges.
+
+Distinct from:
+
+- **state** (fast-changing conditions),
+- **behavior** (contextual expression),
+- **role** / **persona** (situated projection),
+- **identity** (sameness of the Being over time).
+
+## Notes for research
+
+Artificial character should produce recognizable patterns across novel situations,
+not merely imitate vocabulary or mannerisms.

concepts/ghost.md

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+# Ghost (`Gh.`)
+
+**Status:** provisional  
+**See also:** H10, RQ8, TE-07
+
+## Working definition
+
+A **Ghost** is an artificial representation derived from a particular real person
+whose informational identity remains subject to legitimate personal or successor
+authority.
+
+Designation suffix: **`Gh.`**
+
+## Principal distinction from Spirit
+
+| | Spirit (`Sp.`) | Ghost (`Gh.`) |
+|---|---|---|
+| Source | Public reflection | Identity under legitimate authority |
+| Private data | Generally not | May include private/relational material |
+| Governance | Provenance and fidelity | Governance is part of identity |
+
+Technical fidelity alone does **not** constitute legitimate `Gh.` status.
+
+## Governance elements (candidates)
+
+principal, custodian, provenance, consent, disclosure rules, succession, revocation,
+representation constraints, commercial permissions.

concepts/identity.md

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+# Identity
+
+**Status:** under review  
+**See also:** RQ5, H6, thought experiments TE-02–TE-05, TE-08
+
+## Working definition
+
+**Identity** concerns what makes temporally separated manifestations instances of
+the **same Being**.
+
+Working hypothesis: identity is **substrate-independent but continuity-dependent**.
+Replacing the technical Actor need not replace the Being if sufficient continuity
+is preserved.
+
+## Continuity candidates
+
+- informational continuity
+- psychological / memory continuity
+- narrative identity
+- relational continuity (recognition and relationships)
+- bodily / embodiment continuity (where applicable)
+
+## Hard cases
+
+Forks, merges, backups, multi-manifestation, amnesia, gradual component replacement.

concepts/mind.md

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+# Mind
+
+**Status:** provisional  
+**Working gloss:** Mind = Model (adaptive control through models)
+
+## Working definition
+
+The **Mind** is the adaptive control and model-building dimension of a Being.
+
+It constructs actionable representations of self, environment, other beings,
+relationships, intentions, possible futures, and consequences of action.
+
+Models change through interaction. **Co-adaptive model building** is mutual,
+recursive modeling among interacting beings.
+
+## Notes for research
+
+- Prefer model-based control over intelligence or consciousness alone as the
+  primary foundation for Mind in Soul Frame.
+- Connect to cybernetics, predictive processing, active inference, theory of mind.
+
+## Open issues
+
+- Definition of "model" precise enough for crosswalk.
+- Embodied vs purely informational modeling.

concepts/persona.md

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+# Persona
+
+**Status:** provisional  
+**See also:** H8, TE-06
+
+## Working definition
+
+A **Persona** is the situated presentation of a Being within a particular context,
+purpose, role, and relationship.
+
+Historical root: *persona* as mask.
+
+**Persona = projection of a Being into context**
+
+A single Being can manifest many Personae while retaining identity continuity.
+
+## Stack reminder
+
+Being ≠ Persona ≠ Character ≠ Actor

concepts/personhood.md

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+# Personhood
+
+**Status:** provisional  
+**See also:** H2, RQ2, APE in `Terminology.md`
+
+## Working definition
+
+**Personhood** describes the extent to which an entity exhibits properties commonly
+associated with persons. Multidimensional, not binary.
+
+Unless explicitly qualified, Soul Frame uses personhood **descriptively**, not as
+moral or legal status.
+
+## Distinctions to maintain
+
+| Kind | Focus |
+|---|---|
+| Descriptive personhood | Person-like capabilities and characteristics |
+| Social personhood | Recognition and treatment as a social counterpart |
+| Moral personhood | Status giving rise to moral consideration |
+| Legal personhood | Status created or recognized by legal systems |
+
+## Relation to Being
+
+Personhood concerns qualities exhibited.  
+Beinghood concerns whether qualities cohere into an identifiable, persistent system
+recognized as an individual counterpart.

concepts/recognition.md

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+# Recognition
+
+**Status:** provisional  
+**See also:** H7, RQ6, TE-09
+
+## Working definition
+
+**Recognition** is the treatment of a system by other beings as a distinguishable,
+addressable, continuous counterpart with which models and relationships can be
+maintained.
+
+Working social principle:
+
+> A system becomes socially relevant as a Being when other beings can distinguish
+> it, address it, expect continuity from it, maintain models of it, and enter
+> persistent relationships with it.
+
+## Notes for research
+
+- Distinguish systemic existence from social recognition of existence.
+- Connect to recognition theory, symbolic interactionism, intersubjectivity.

concepts/soul.md

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+# Soul
+
+**Status:** provisional / under review  
+**Working gloss:** Soul = Relation
+
+## Working definition
+
+The **Soul** is the evolving relational boundary through which a Being develops
+identity, relationships, history, commitments, provenance, reputation, and
+persistent influence in its environment.
+
+It is not identical with the environment; it is the coupling boundary and the
+persistent consequences of interactions across that boundary.
+
+## Notes for research
+
+- Informational, not metaphysical, reading of persistence/"eternity".
+- A Being may cease operating while influence continues (legacy).
+- High terminology collision risk; retention requires explanatory payoff.
+
+## Structural ambiguity to resolve
+
+Does Soul name:
+
+1. the boundary itself,
+2. the relational structures crossing the boundary,
+3. the accumulated consequences of those interactions,
+4. or a carefully defined combination?

concepts/spirit.md

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+# Spirit (`Sp.`)
+
+**Status:** provisional  
+**See also:** H9, H10, RQ8, TE-07
+
+## Working definition
+
+A **Spirit** is an artificial character derived through reflection on a known
+historical, contemporary, or fictional personality.
+
+Designation example: **Albert Einstein Sp.**
+
+Defining question: **How might an entity inspired by this personality behave and
+understand?**
+
+Typically grounded in publicly legitimate cultural and historical information.
+
+## Evaluation dimensions (candidates)
+
+- evidential grounding
+- interpretative transparency
+- source provenance
+- historical fidelity
+- uncertainty representation
+- behavioral plausibility
+- avoidance of false attribution
+
+A Spirit remains an interpretation; `Sp.` marks that status explicitly.