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Scaffold the research layout from the research program, add INTENT/SCOPE, research instruments, concept stubs, and SOUL-WP-0001–0008 phase workplans. Register the repo with State Hub under domain agents for hub-synced execution.
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Terminology Standard
Canonical glossary for Soul Frame. Definitions here are working and subject to revision after literature mapping and adversarial tests.
See also: concepts/ for longer concept notes; Claims.md for propositions under
evidence review; SoulFrameIntroduction.md for the current narrative exposition.
Status legend
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
provisional |
Working definition in active use |
under review |
Contested or pending literature crosswalk |
retained |
Survived collision analysis for now |
deprecated |
Superseded; keep only for historical reference |
Core triad
Body
Status: provisional
The operational dimension of a Being: how it perceives, operates, and affects its environment. In Soul Frame: Body = Action.
Mind
Status: provisional
The adaptive control and model-building dimension of a Being. In Soul Frame: Mind = Model (adaptive control through models).
Soul
Status: provisional / under review
The evolving relational boundary through which a Being develops identity, relationships, history, commitments, provenance, reputation, and persistent influence. In Soul Frame: Soul = Relation.
Note: high collision risk with religious, metaphysical, and folk usages. Retention depends on whether the relational/systems reading adds explanatory power.
Entity and status terms
Being
Status: provisional
A sufficiently coherent and persistent informational system with boundary, addressability, continuity, adaptive modeling, and recognition as a counterpart for relationships. Beinghood is treated as degree of systemic coherence and recognition rather than a simple binary.
Personhood
Status: provisional
The extent to which an entity exhibits person-like properties (identity continuity, agency, memory, character, social participation, etc.). Multidimensional, not binary. Distinct from beinghood. Unless qualified, used descriptively, not as moral or legal status.
APE (Artificial Personhood-Exposing Entity)
Status: provisional
An artificial informational entity intentionally constructed to expose one or more dimensions associated with personhood. Does not assert that the entity is a person morally or legally.
Identity and presentation
Character
Status: provisional
A relatively persistent structure of dispositions from which context-dependent behavior emerges. Distinct from state, role, persona, and identity.
Persona
Status: provisional
Situated projection of a Being into a particular context, purpose, role, and relationship. Not identical with the Being itself.
Actor
Status: provisional
Technical machinery through which a Persona is manifested (model, harness, memory, tools, runtime, etc.). The Actor is not necessarily the Being.
Identity
Status: under review
What makes temporally separated manifestations instances of the same Being. Continuity-dependent; substrate-independent in the working hypotheses.
Construction / provenance descriptors
Agent
Status: provisional
Artificial entity or component primarily derived from functional purpose (What should it do?). May be a component of a Being or itself become a Being.
Spirit (Sp.)
Status: provisional
Artificial character derived through reflection on a known historical, contemporary,
or fictional personality, typically from publicly legitimate sources.
Example designation: Albert Einstein Sp.
Ghost (Gh.)
Status: provisional
Identity-derived representation of an actual person under legitimate authority over that person's informational identity. Differs from Spirit principally by authority and possible use of private/relationship-specific information. Governance is part of identity for Ghosts.
Relational and social terms
Recognition
Status: provisional
Treatment of a system by other beings as a distinguishable, addressable, continuous counterpart with which relationships can be formed. Constitutive of social beinghood in the working hypotheses.
Addressability
Status: provisional
Whether interaction can target the entity specifically as an individual.
Co-adaptive model building
Status: provisional
Recursive mutual modeling among interacting beings (A models B, B models A, and models of models), producing alignment, divergence, trust, conflict, and related social phenomena.
Endings and persistence
Operational death
Status: provisional
The Being can no longer instantiate processes necessary for continued action and modeling.
Identity death
Status: provisional
Sufficient continuity can no longer be established between past and future manifestations.
Social death
Status: provisional
The entity ceases to exist as an active counterpart in the models and relationships of others.
Legacy
Status: provisional
Causal and informational traces that continue after operational cessation (works, memories, institutional effects, Spirits, Ghosts, etc.).
Terms requiring particular care
High risk of collision with established disciplinary usage:
- Soul
- Mind
- Being
- personhood
- agent
- persona
- identity
- consciousness
For each, maintain adjacent terminology and crosswalk notes in concepts/ and
sources/.