tegwick dcd9f8dba6 Complete Phase III personhood (SOUL-WP-0004)

Map descriptive personhood dimensions P1–P12, four kinds of personhood, and
Character/Persona/Actor separations. Support H2/H8, judge TE-06, write
phase-iii-personhood-synthesis.md, finish SOUL-WP-0004, and mark SOUL-WP-0005
ready.

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Phase III Personhood — Synthesis

Workplan: SOUL-WP-0004
Date: 2026-08-12
Status: complete for Phase III gate
Primary bodies: research/personhood/personhood-dimensions-map.md, research/character-persona/character-persona-performance-map.md, RN-003 personhood axis, RN-004 character/identity constraints

1. Purpose

Separate Being, Person(hood), Character, Persona, and Actor. Map descriptive vs social vs moral vs legal personhood without conflation. Stress-test APE vs Being and multi-Persona identity (TE-06).

Assumes Phase I–II: layered Beinghood, Social Mind, recognition multi-sense.

2. What holds

Four kinds of personhood — descriptive (default), social, moral, legal — must stay distinct. Architecture does not imply rights.
Descriptive personhood is a profile (P1–P12), not a binary. Agency alone is not personhood (daemon counterexample).
Three axes remain indispensable:
- A autonomous individuality
- B descriptive personhood
- C social recognition
H2 supported: high personhood exposure without Being (APE chatbot); high autonomy without personhood (daemon).
Stack defended with sources:
```
Being ≠ Character ≠ Persona ≠ Actor
```
Character ≠ identity (RN-004). Persona = contextual projection (Goffman/role). Actor = machinery (Phase I H6).
H8 supported: multiple Personae need not fragment identity when integration holds; TE-06 documents failure modes.
APE remains useful as conservative construction category for personhood exposure without claiming Being or moral/legal personhood.

3. What must change / stay disciplined

Temptation	Discipline
“It’s a person” after fluent chat	Check axes A/B/C and continuity
Trait vector = Character = Identity	Character is dispositional only
Product persona = Being	Persona is projection
Moral rights from P-scores	Moral personhood is a separate map
Legal personality from Beinghood	Legal map is independent (WS12)

4. Evidence on hypotheses

Hypothesis	Strength	Status
H2 personhood ≠ Beinghood	moderate→strong	supported
H8 Persona projection	moderate	supported

5. Compact stack for later phases

                    BEING
         autonomy + personhood + address
              + recognition (someone)
                      │
         ┌────────────┼────────────┐
         │            │            │
       BODY         MIND         SOUL
       Action       Model       Relation
         │            │            │
         └────────────┼────────────┘
                      │
              DESCRIPTIVE PERSONHOOD
                   (P1–P12 profile)
                      │
                  CHARACTER
              dispositional structure
                      │
                   PERSONA
              situated projection
                      │
                    ACTOR
             technical manifestation

Agent / Spirit / Ghost remain provenance/construction descriptors that shape how Character and Persona are sourced — not replacements for this stack (Phase IV–V).

6. Unresolved → Phase IV+

Item	Next
How agent architectures implement P1–P12	Phase IV
Sp. character depth vs Beinghood	Phase IV–V
Gh. persona disclosure policies	Phase V
Moral/legal personhood tables	WS5 / WS12
Empirical measures for P-dimensions	later methods work

7. Unblock for SOUL-WP-0005

Artificial Beings research may assume:

APE vs Being distinction,
P-profile language for “someone-like,”
Character/Persona/Actor separation,
multi-Persona without automatic identity split,
no moral/legal smuggling from descriptive scores.

8. Compact Phase III thesis

Personhood is how strongly an entity is someone-like; Beinghood is whether that someonehood coheres as a continuing, addressable counterpart. Character is what tends to stay disposed; Persona is which face appears; Actor is what runs. Confusing any two of these produces most of the category errors in contemporary AI “person” talk.

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