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# Personhood
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**Status:** revised (Phase IX, 2026-09-28 — P1–P12 itemized, SOUL-WP-0010-T01)
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**See also:** H2, RQ2, APE, RN-003, `research/personhood/personhood-dimensions-map.md`
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## Working definition
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**Personhood** is the multidimensional extent to which an entity exhibits
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properties commonly associated with persons (*someone-like* qualities).
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Unless qualified, Soul Frame uses personhood **descriptively** — not as moral or
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legal status.
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## Four kinds (do not collapse)
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| Kind | Focus |
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| **Descriptive** | Person-like capacities and structures (default) |
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| **Social** | Treatment as social counterpart |
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| **Moral** | Moral consideration / duties |
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| **Legal** | Legal personality and rights/duties |
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## Descriptive profile (P1–P12)
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Itemized to the same specificity as B1–B8 (`concepts/being.md`), per
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SOUL-WP-0010-T01. P1–P9 from RN-003; P10–P12 added in Phase III. Full map:
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`research/personhood/personhood-dimensions-map.md`. Literature basis:
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Dennett cluster conditions (SF-R093); trait and social-cognitive
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personality psychology (SF-R094).
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| ID | Dimension | Defining question | Anchors |
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| P1 | Self-model | Does it maintain a model of itself as a distinct, continuing entity? | SM2; identity; Dennett self-representation condition |
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| P2 | Other-model | Does it hold differentiated models of particular others (not just user classes)? | SM3; social cognition / theory-of-mind tradition |
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| P3 | Relationship model | Does it track histories and states of specific relationships? | SM5; Soul (relation) |
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| P4 | Character | Does it show persistent dispositions across contexts — stable yet situation-sensitive (trait × situation, CAPS-style), not a fixed script? | Character; SF-R094 Big Five / Mischel |
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| P5 | Intentional organization | Is its behavior intelligible via extended intentions and plans, beyond single-step stimulus–response? | Mind; agency; Dennett intentional-system condition (SF-R080/R093) |
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| P6 | Autobiographical integration | Does it integrate past events as *its own* history? | continuity C4/C5; Schechtman characterization question |
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| P7 | Perspective | Does it operate from an entity-relative informational perspective? (First-person indexicality; explicitly **not** solved phenomenal consciousness.) | RN-003; design boundary |
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| P8 | Commitments | Do its present acts bind its future manifestations (promises, stances, obligations)? | normative continuity |
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| P9 | Social reciprocity | Does it recursively co-adapt with others who model it (mutual modeling, not one-way output)? | H4; Social Mind; Dennett reciprocity condition |
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| P10 | Communicative competence | Can it participate in shared symbol systems and maintain common ground? | language; Dennett verbal-communication condition |
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| P11 | Responsibility-tracking | Can attributions of credit/blame stick to it diachronically? | identity + commitments (P1, P8) |
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| P12 | Value / preference structure | Does it exhibit stable cares, preferences, and an evaluative stance? | character; intentional organization; Frankfurt second-order volitions |
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Profile, not binary checklist — score per code; entities can be high on P10
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and low on P4/P6 (stateless chatbot), or high on B1–B8 and low across
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P1–P12 (daemon). Per-code enumeration is the prerequisite for per-code
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metric scoping (`research/metrics-scoping-note.md`).
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## Three axes
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```text
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A — Autonomous individuality
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B — Descriptive personhood
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C — Social recognition
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```
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High B without A → strong **APE**, not necessarily **Being**.
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High A without B → autonomous individual (e.g. daemon), not someone-like Being.
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## Relation to Being
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Personhood = qualities exhibited.
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Beinghood v0.2 = autonomy layer + sufficient personhood + addressability + recognition.
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## APE
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**Artificial Personhood-Exposing Entity** — constructed to expose ≥1 personhood
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dimensions. Construction category, not moral/legal person claim.
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## Sources
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RN-003; Locke; Dennett cluster concepts; Schechtman characterization question;
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Phase II recognition for social personhood; moral/legal only as boundary literature.
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