soul-frame/Claims.md

Claim and Evidence Register

Structured research records for important Soul Frame propositions.

Each entry should follow:

Claim:
Soul Frame concept:
Supporting literature:
Contradicting literature:
Adjacent terminology:
Evidence strength:
Open questions:
Required refinement:
Status: draft | under review | supported | contested | revised | rejected

Evidence strength (working scale):

Level	Meaning
none	Speculative / programmatic only
weak	Sparse analogy or single tradition
moderate	Multiple sources, incomplete synthesis
strong	Broad, well-aligned support
mixed	Significant support and contradiction

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Working hypotheses (from Research Program)

H1 — Beinghood is multidimensional

Claim: Beinghood cannot be reduced to a single property such as intelligence,
       consciousness, or autonomy.
Soul Frame concept: Being
Supporting literature: (pending)
Contradicting literature: (pending)
Adjacent terminology: autopoiesis, agency, personhood, autonomy
Evidence strength: none
Open questions: binary vs threshold vs multidimensional degree
Required refinement: operational criteria / dimensions
Status: draft

H2 — Personhood and Beinghood are distinct

Claim: An entity can expose substantial personhood without constituting a
       persistent Being.
Soul Frame concept: Personhood, Being
Supporting literature: (pending)
Contradicting literature: (pending)
Adjacent terminology: person, agent, moral patient
Evidence strength: none
Open questions: boundary cases (companions, chatbots, animals)
Required refinement: dimension lists and thresholds
Status: draft

H3 — Mind is fundamentally model-based

Claim: Adaptive modeling provides a more useful foundation for Mind in Soul Frame
       than intelligence or consciousness alone.
Soul Frame concept: Mind
Supporting literature: (pending)
Contradicting literature: (pending)
Adjacent terminology: predictive processing, active inference, control theory
Evidence strength: none
Open questions: relation to embodiment; non-model-based accounts of mind
Required refinement: definition of "model" in this framework
Status: draft

H4 — Social cognition is co-adaptive

Claim: Persistent interaction between beings produces recursively adapting models
       of self, other, and relationship.
Soul Frame concept: Co-adaptive model building, Mind
Supporting literature: (pending)
Contradicting literature: (pending)
Adjacent terminology: theory of mind, interactive alignment, common ground
Evidence strength: none
Open questions: minimum requirements for "co-adaptation"
Required refinement: relation to existing multi-agent and ToM literature
Status: draft

H5 — Soul can be operationalized relationally

Claim: Soul can be given a meaningful systems interpretation through identity,
       boundary, relationship, provenance, history, and persistent influence.
Soul Frame concept: Soul
Supporting literature: (pending)
Contradicting literature: (pending)
Adjacent terminology: structural coupling, extended mind, reputation, legacy
Evidence strength: none
Open questions: boundary vs relations vs accumulated consequences
Required refinement: terminology collision analysis for "Soul"
Status: draft

H6 — Identity is substrate-independent but continuity-dependent

Claim: Replacing the technical Actor need not replace the Being, provided
       sufficient continuity is preserved.
Soul Frame concept: Identity, Actor, Being
Supporting literature: (pending)
Contradicting literature: (pending)
Adjacent terminology: psychological continuity, Ship of Theseus, functionalism
Evidence strength: none
Open questions: what continuity is sufficient; forking/merging
Required refinement: persistence conditions
Status: draft

H7 — Recognition is constitutive of social Beinghood

Claim: Being recognized as a persistent counterpart changes the systemic role
       of an entity; social Beinghood depends on recognition.
Soul Frame concept: Recognition, Being
Supporting literature: (pending)
Contradicting literature: (pending)
Adjacent terminology: recognition theory, intersubjectivity, social construction
Evidence strength: none
Open questions: systemic existence vs social recognition of existence
Required refinement: whether Beinghood without recognition is coherent
Status: draft

H8 — Persona is a projection rather than an identity

Claim: A Being can support multiple context-dependent Personae without necessarily
       fragmenting identity.
Soul Frame concept: Persona, Identity
Supporting literature: (pending)
Contradicting literature: (pending)
Adjacent terminology: role theory, avatar, dramatis personae
Evidence strength: none
Open questions: when persona fragmentation threatens identity
Required refinement: Being ≠ Persona ≠ Character ≠ Actor
Status: draft

H9 — Agent, Spirit, and Ghost describe provenance and construction

Claim: Agent, Spirit, and Ghost should not automatically be treated as mutually
       exclusive kinds of Being; they are genealogical or architectural descriptors.
Soul Frame concept: Agent, Spirit, Ghost
Supporting literature: (pending)
Contradicting literature: (pending)
Adjacent terminology: agent, digital human, posthumous avatar
Evidence strength: none
Open questions: overlaps and hybrid constructions
Required refinement: typology vs dimensions
Status: draft

H10 — Ghosthood requires authority

Claim: Technical fidelity alone is insufficient for legitimate Gh. status;
       legitimate authority over the represented identity is required.
Soul Frame concept: Ghost
Supporting literature: (pending)
Contradicting literature: (pending)
Adjacent terminology: personality rights, consent, digital legacy, fiduciary duty
Evidence strength: none
Open questions: succession, commercial use, false ghosts
Required refinement: governance model for Ghosts
Status: draft

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Additional claims

(Add numbered claims as literature work proceeds. Prefer refining existing entries over proliferating near-duplicates.)