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- SCOPE.md now reflects Phases I-IX complete, paper draft with decided pathway, companion line, and metrics groundwork; current work surface and sharpened out-of-scope table - history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md assesses state against INTENT's six determinations and success criterion; gap register G1-G7, ranking G1 (sufficiency/weighting), G2 (coverage matrix), G3 (Soul packaging) as most relevant addressable gaps - SOUL-WP-0011 opened to address G1-G3 (three tasks) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Assistant: claude-code Assistant-Model: sonnet Assistant-Process: 234768@bnt-lap001 Assistant-Session: 91cdb0c1-a203-431c-b542-cf192b3930a6
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# SCOPE
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> This file helps you quickly understand what this repository is about,
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> when it is relevant, and when it is not.
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> It is intentionally lightweight and may be incomplete.
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>
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> Aspirational charter: `INTENT.md` · Research agenda: `ResearchProgram.md` ·
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> Conceptual draft: `SoulFrameIntroduction.md` ·
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> Scope-vs-intent gap assessment: `history/260928-scope-intent-gap-assessment.md`
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---
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## One-liner
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A systems-theoretic research program and conceptual framework for person-like
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informational beings (Body = Action, Mind = Model, Soul = Relation) — through
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its foundational phases and holding a research-grounded paper draft.
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---
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## Core Idea
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Soul Frame develops a small, coherent vocabulary for describing biological,
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artificial, fictionalized, and potentially non-human **Beings** as interacting
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informational systems — without requiring a solved theory of consciousness, and
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without silently equating descriptive personhood with moral or legal status.
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Central question:
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> **When does an informational system become someone that another someone can know?**
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---
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## What the repo actually holds (as of 2026-09-28)
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Phases I–IX are complete (SOUL-WP-0001 … SOUL-WP-0010, all finished):
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- **Concept set** — 13 working definitions in `concepts/` plus three criteria
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documents (`concepts/criteria/`), including itemized B1–B8 (autonomous
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individuality) and P1–P12 (descriptive personhood) profiles
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- **Research instruments** — `Terminology.md`, `Claims.md` (H1–H10, all
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supported/revised through phase review), `OpenQuestions.md` (RQ1–RQ8 with
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working answers; itemized OQ registers), `ThoughtExperiments.md` (TE-01–09+
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with working judgments)
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- **Literature base** — `sources/bibliography.md` (SF-R### ledger),
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discipline-organized maps under `research/` for all 13 workstreams touched
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so far, five phase syntheses plus `research/research-synthesis.md`
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- **Paper** — `paper/draft.md`: first research-grounded draft, adversarially
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reviewed (SOUL-WP-0009), publication pathway decided: internal circulation
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as **paper-one for coulomb-research**, then pre-print → journal
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- **Companion line (moral/legal)** — charter
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(`research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md`) plus first
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slice executed (legal personhood precedent survey); items 2–4 unstarted
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- **Metrics groundwork** — measurability scoping across all axes
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(`research/metrics-scoping-note.md`) and instrument scoping for B3 +
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psychological continuity; instrument *build* is founder-gated (open hub
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decision `0401cf28`)
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## In Scope (current work surface)
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- Refining weighting/sufficiency questions for the B-, P-, and continuity
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profiles (RQ1/RQ2/RQ5 residuals; paper §17 item 2)
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- Exercising INTENT's success criterion: applying the full vocabulary across
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the nine reference entity types with meaningful distinctions
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- Resolving paper-critical packaging questions (e.g. Soul: relations vs
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consequences, RQ4 remainder)
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- Further companion-line slices (charter items 2–4) and law/governance
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deepening — under the charter's own gates
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- Instrument development for scoped metrics — only after decision `0401cf28`
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is resolved
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- Carrying the paper through the coulomb-research internal-circulation stage
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## Out of Scope
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| Concern | Belongs elsewhere |
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| ------- | ----------------- |
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| Production agent runtime / harness | agent-harness, activity-core, runtime repos |
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| LLM provider routing and tooling | llm-connect, related infra |
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| Claiming to solve consciousness | philosophy programs; not a gate here |
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| Silent moral/legal personhood claims | companion line only (charter-gated); no premature derivation |
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| Shipping product features as primary deliverable | downstream architecture repos after conceptual clarity |
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| "Practical architecture for artificial beings" (INTENT det. 6b) | downstream repos; conceptual clarity feeds it, this repo does not build it |
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---
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## Workplan prefix
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`SOUL-WP`
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## Domain / hub
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- **Domain:** `agents`
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- **Repo slug:** `soul-frame`
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- **Secondary:** `infotech` (conceptual/platform adjacency)
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