tegwick 3fbcca209d Complete Phase I foundations (SOUL-WP-0002)

Integrate research/foundations notes 001–005 into Terminology, Claims,
bibliography, concept notes, thought experiments, and open questions. Write
phase-i-foundations-synthesis.md, finish SOUL-WP-0002, and mark SOUL-WP-0003
ready for interaction research.

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Being

Status: revised (Phase I, 2026-08-12)
See also: Terminology.md, RQ1, H1–H2, H7, RN-001–003

Working definition (v0.2)

An autonomous informational individual exhibiting sufficiently coherent dimensions of personhood to become an addressable entity that is recognized by other Beings as a persistent counterpart.

Being ≈ AutonomousIndividuality + Personhood + Addressability + Recognition

Not arithmetic — four requirement families.

Autonomous individuality profile (substrate)

From RN-002 (renamed in RN-003 so autonomy alone is not labeled “Being”):

Code	Dimension
B1	Individuability
B2	Temporal integrity
B3	Constitutive integration
B4	Self-maintenance participation
B5	Endogenous viability
B6	Adaptive regulation
B7	Interactional asymmetry
B8	Identity-preserving transformation

Treat as a profile, not eight Boolean gates.

Stack

Informational process
  → Individuated system
    → Autonomous individual
      → (+ personhood, addressability, recognition) → Being
        → (+ reciprocal relations) → Social Being

Notes

Not restricted to biological organisms; not automatic for every computational process.
Autonomy-only reading yields false positives (self-maintaining daemon, control plane).
Personhood-only reading yields false positives (stateless person-like chatbots as APE).
Distinguish systemic individuality from social recognition of existence.

Crosswalk

Adjacent term	Similarity	Difference
autopoietic system	self-maintaining organization	biological autopoiesis not required; contested beyond life
autonomous agent	multi-criteria agency	agent often functional; Being requires personhood layer
person	personhood layer	personhood ≠ full Beinghood
individual	individuability	may lack autonomy/personhood/recognition
operationally closed system	closure	closure alone insufficient for “someone”

Sources

research/foundations/001-*.md, 002-*.md, 003-beinghood-stress-test.md

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