soul-frame/workplans/SOUL-WP-0010-metrics-and-personhood-mapping.md

id	type	title	domain	repo	status	flavor	origin	origin_ref	owner	topic_slug	priority	created	updated	depends_on	state_hub_workstream_id
SOUL-WP-0010	workplan	Phase IX — P-axis enumeration, metrics instruments, and moral/legal companion line (slice 1)	agents	soul-frame	finished	residual	residual	SOUL-WP-0009	grok	soul-frame	low	2026-09-28	2026-09-28	SOUL-WP-0009	3f3998c6-038e-5cad-857c-26d422f88163

SOUL-WP-0010 — Phase IX: Metrics and Personhood Mapping (Slice 1)

Goal

Residual of SOUL-WP-0009. Two of its completed tasks (T04 metrics scoping, T05 moral/legal charter) each recommended follow-on work that is multi-step and should not sit only as prose in their source notes:

• research/metrics-scoping-note.md found the B-axis (P1–P12) blocked on enumeration, and recommended prioritizing instrument development for constitutive integration (B3) and psychological continuity.
• research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md recommended a first narrow slice ("legal personhood precedent survey only") rather than opening the whole moral/legal question at once.

This workplan bundles both as a first slice. Activated 2026-09-28 with Bernd's go-ahead; all three tasks resolved the same day.

Depends on

• SOUL-WP-0009 Phase VIII research agenda (finished 2026-09-28)

Tasks

T01 — Enumerate P1–P12 explicitly

id: SOUL-WP-0010-T01
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "598c52c1-5902-541f-bff0-78a8700ce4ed"

concepts/personhood.md currently references P1–P12 as a profile without itemizing each code the way concepts/being.md itemizes B1–B8. Write out the twelve dimensions explicitly, sourced from Phase III personhood literature (Dennett cluster conditions; trait/social-cognitive personality psychology).

Done when: concepts/personhood.md has a P1–P12 table matching B1–B8's specificity.

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T02 — Instrument scoping for constitutive integration and psychological continuity

id: SOUL-WP-0010-T02
status: done
priority: low
state_hub_task_id: "1ae4434f-8603-5c71-aa59-add71bff24aa"

Per research/metrics-scoping-note.md's recommendation, scope (not build) candidate instruments for B3 (constitutive integration) and psychological continuity specifically — the two dimensions doing the most argumentative work across the thought-experiment catalog with no existing metric.

Done when: a follow-up note names at least one candidate operational approach per dimension, or explicitly states none is currently viable.

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T03 — Legal personhood precedent survey (first slice only)

id: SOUL-WP-0010-T03
status: done
priority: low
state_hub_task_id: "f29ae5a5-0ede-57c2-9963-50580f5cf6db"

Per the moral/legal charter's non-goals, take only the first scoped slice: a survey of legal personhood precedent (corporate personhood, animal welfare/rights law, AI legal-personality proposals) extending research/law-governance/sp-gh-legal-gap-sketch.md. Do not attempt moral status or the non-derivation statement (charter items 2–3) in this slice.

Done when: a precedent survey note exists, explicitly scoped to legal personhood only, cross-referenced from the charter.

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Outcome (2026-09-28)

• T01 — concepts/personhood.md now carries an itemized P1–P12 table (defining question + anchors per code), sourced from the Phase III dimensions map, SF-R093 (Dennett cluster) and SF-R094 (trait / social-cognitive personality psychology). Unblocks per-code metric scoping.
• T02 — research/instrument-scoping-b3-psychological-continuity.md: viable build targets named for both dimensions (B3: constraint-closure ratio + perturbation profiling; psychological continuity: representational continuity, white-box systems only). Neither viable as a validated metric today.
• T03 — research/law-governance/legal-personhood-precedent-survey.md: four precedent clusters (corporate, animal, environmental, AI proposals), legal-personhood-only per charter item 1; cross-referenced from the charter. Key finding: double decoupling of legal personality from descriptive profile; guardianship grants (§3) are the template relevant to Gh. custodianship.

Residual: whether to build/pilot the two scoped instruments is founder-gated — recorded as open hub decision 0401cf28-48bb-4486-87cc-b1dfd6903d0d (origin: residual, origin_ref: SOUL-WP-0010-T02). Charter items 2–4 stay future companion-line slices gated by the charter itself, not residuals of this workplan.