---
id: SOUL-WP-0005
type: workplan
title: "Phase IV — Artificial Beings: agents and persistent identity"
domain: agents
repo: soul-frame
status: finished
owner: grok
topic_slug: soul-frame
priority: high
created: "2026-08-09"
updated: "2026-08-12"
depends_on:
  - SOUL-WP-0004
state_hub_workstream_id: "5db87ddb-aeb3-4648-834f-3833390831a0"
---

# SOUL-WP-0005 — Phase IV Artificial Beings

## Goal

Map Soul Frame onto contemporary artificial systems: autonomous/LLM agents,
generative agents, companions, digital humans, memory architectures, persistent
identity.

Research dirs: `research/ai-agents/`, `research/artificial-persons/`.

## Depends on

- **SOUL-WP-0004**

## Follow-on

- **SOUL-WP-0006** — Phase V Spirits and Ghosts (unblocked)

## Outcome

Synthesis: `research/phase-iv-artificial-beings-synthesis.md`

Key results: architecture crosswalk; memory ≠ continuity; approximate-beings
catalog; Park et al. as proto-Being; Actor/Persona/Identity confusions named.

## Tasks

### T01 — Agent architecture crosswalk

```task
id: SOUL-WP-0005-T01
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "ddc81bc0-f345-42b3-838e-ce47e3d98bc8"
```

Map agent frameworks and generative-agent literature to Body/Mind/Soul/Actor/
Persona. Note where actor, persona, and identity are confused.

**Done when:** crosswalk table exists in research notes + bibliography entries.

---

### T02 — Persistence & memory architectures

```task
id: SOUL-WP-0005-T02
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "70f35381-9a4c-4756-a630-6ab2dce858be"
```

Survey memory/identity mechanisms in persistent agents; link to continuity
criteria and WS10 themes (when memory becomes continuity).

**Done when:** open questions on memory/continuity updated with technical cases.

---

### T03 — Catalog approximate Beings

```task
id: SOUL-WP-0005-T03
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "2b6bd6b6-cbb5-4734-9671-700c1cfb21ef"
```

Short catalog of current systems approximating Beings vs mere task executors,
using Phase I–III criteria.

**Done when:** catalog note under `research/ai-agents/` with explicit criteria used.

---

### T04 — Phase IV synthesis note

```task
id: SOUL-WP-0005-T04
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "dbe3eaea-50f6-438b-a21d-001a41c837de"
```

Write `research/phase-iv-artificial-beings-synthesis.md`.

**Done when:** Spirits/Ghosts phase can assume agent/Being vocabulary is mapped.