# Research

Discipline- and theme-organized literature and synthesis work.

Each subdirectory corresponds to clusters in `ResearchProgram.md` (workstreams
WS1–WS13). Phase order prefers foundations before applied and cultural layers.

| Directory | Focus |
|---|---|
| `systems-theory/` | General systems, closure, boundary, environment |
| `cybernetics/` | Control, self-reference, second-order cybernetics |
| `philosophy-of-mind/` | Mind, consciousness, functionalism, embodiment |
| `personal-identity/` | Persistence, continuity, branching identity |
| `cognitive-science/` | Models, predictive processing, active inference |
| `social-cognition/` | Theory of mind, co-adaptation, joint attention |
| `sociology/` | Recognition, intersubjectivity, social systems |
| `personhood/` | Descriptive / social / moral / legal personhood |
| `ai-agents/` | Autonomous and LLM agent architectures |
| `artificial-persons/` | Digital humans, companions, virtual persons |
| `character-persona/` | Character, persona, performance, roles |
| `spirits/` | `Sp.` simulation and cultural representation |
| `ghosts-digital-legacy/` | `Gh.`, digital remains, consent, governance |
| `law-governance/` | Legal personality, personality rights, liability |
| `fiction-cultural-precedents/` | Conceptual laboratory (not empirical evidence) |

Link sources via `sources/bibliography.md`. Promote stable definitions into
`concepts/` and `Terminology.md`. Register propositions in `Claims.md`.