tegwick 807d6b17f6 Complete Phase II interaction (SOUL-WP-0003)

Map model-based mind, co-adaptive social cognition, and recognition/social
Beinghood into instruments and workstream notes. Support H3/H4/H7, judge TE-09,
write phase-ii-interaction-synthesis.md, finish SOUL-WP-0003, and mark
SOUL-WP-0004 ready.

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Open Questions Register

Questions that remain unresolved or contested. Link related entries in Claims.md, ThoughtExperiments.md, and concepts/ where helpful.

Phase I update: 2026-08-12 — several RQs refined; detail OQs from RN-005/006 indexed below.

RQ1 — What constitutes a Being?

Phase I status: refined, not closed.

Working answer: multi-layer profile (autonomous individuality + personhood + addressability + recognition). Still open:

Weighting and thresholds of B1–B8
Observer-relative individuation without arbitrariness
Nested levels (colony, collective, multi-Body)

RQ2 — What constitutes personhood?

Phase I status: deferred to Phase III; necessity of some personhood layer for Beinghood established (daemon false positive).

Descriptive vs social vs moral vs legal still must stay distinct
Dimension list for descriptive personhood incomplete

RQ3 — What constitutes a Mind?

Phase II status: model-based reading supported (H3); Social Mind SM1–SM8 architecture adopted provisionally. Remaining:

Precise definition of “model” (OQ-055) — inclusive working def in concepts/mind.md
Minimal apparatus for non-social vs social Mind
Recursive depth for personhood (OQ-056)
When common ground becomes collective Mind (OQ-067)

RQ4 — What constitutes a Soul?

Phase I–II status: revised definition (boundary removed); not closed. Phase II ends by pointing to Cluster D: what persists from interactions beyond immediate models (relational persistence = Soul’s domain).

Rename vs retain “Soul”
Packaging: relations vs consequences vs both
Relation to lineage after identity ends

RQ5 — How does identity persist?

Phase I status: structure clarified (Identity ≠ Continuity ≠ Lineage); open:

Continuity weighting (OQ-043)
Dormancy ontology (OQ-046/047)
Fork rights and relationship branching (OQ-050/051)
Ghost authority and gradual transition (OQ-052/053)
Merge responsibility (OQ-054)

Phase II status: refined answer available — recognition constitutive of social Beinghood, not bare autonomous individuality; three senses fixed; TE-09 judged. Remaining:

Exact label policy for Beinghood v0.2 vs “autonomous individual”
Minimal intentional vs social recognition conditions
Moral/legal recognition deferred to Phase III

RQ7 — What is character?

Phase I status: deferred (Phase III); character neither necessary nor sufficient for identity (RN-004).

RQ8 — What kinds of artificial Being exist?

Phase I status: partial — Sp. begins new lineage; Gh. defaults to authorized succession; Agent functional vs autonomous split. Full typology Phase IV–V.

Cross-cutting

Memory vs continuity thresholds
Operational / identity / social death / legacy interactions
Law/governance map (Phase V/XII)
Fiction as conceptual laboratory (Phase VI/XIII)

Indexed OQs from research notes

ID	Topic	Note
OQ-043–054	Identity continuity governance	RN-005
OQ-055–068	Social mind / co-adaptation	RN-006

Resolved / refined (Phase I–II)

Item	Disposition	Pointer
Boundary belongs to Soul?	No — boundary to Being	RN-001 SF-C002
Autonomy alone = Beinghood?	No	RN-003 principal falsification
Identity = memory dump?	No	RN-004/005
Identity = Continuity?	No — may branch	Parfit; RN-004
Soul = boundary?	No — Soul = relation	RN-001 §14
Actor = Being?	No	H6; TE-04
Mind = consciousness?	No — model-based control	H3; Phase II map
Co-adaptation = model exchange?	No — joint evolution via interaction	H4; RN-006
Shared intentionality = Social Mind?	No — special case of cooperation	RN-006
Recognition creates systemic Being?	No — creates/enables Social Beinghood	H7; TE-09
Unrecognized intelligence impossible?	No — autonomy without social Beinghood	TE-09

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