tegwick 6b06d3d391 Complete SOUL-WP-0008: Phase VII Soul Frame paper draft and freeze candidate

Draft related-work.md, full paper draft.md (18 sections following the
outline), an internal adversarial review against all nine cataloged thought
experiments (three coverage gaps found and folded into the draft), and a
freeze candidate snapshot under history/. Marks SOUL-WP-0008 finished and
opens SOUL-WP-0009 to carry the paper's own research agenda and the
external-review pathway decision forward as a residual.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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SOUL-WP-0009 — Phase VIII: Research Agenda and External Review

Goal

Carry forward the open research agenda from the frozen paper draft (history/260928-SOUL-WP-0008-paper-freeze-v1.md §17; paper/draft.md §16–17) and decide the publication/external-review pathway. This workplan is the residual of SOUL-WP-0008 — the freeze candidate is a stable snapshot, not a finished paper, and the items below are multi-step research/decision work that should not be parked in SCOPE.md prose.

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SOUL-WP-0008 Phase VII paper (freeze candidate: T01–T04 done, 2026-09-28)

Tasks

T01 — Soul naming decision (RQ4)

id: SOUL-WP-0009-T01
status: todo
priority: medium

Resolve retain-vs-rename for "Soul" (Terminology.md; draft §8, §16.1). Produce a decision record, not just more discussion — this has been open since Phase I.

Done when: decision recorded (record_decision/resolve_decision) with rationale, and Terminology.md + paper/draft.md updated to match.

T02 — Continuity dimension weighting

id: SOUL-WP-0009-T02
status: todo
priority: medium

Develop a principled way to weigh conflicts between continuity dimensions (causal, organizational, psychological, autobiographical/narrative, normative, relational) for hard cases (draft §16.2). Test against TE-02, TE-03, TE-04, TE-08.

Done when: a weighting scheme (or explicit non-arithmetic decision procedure) is documented in concepts/identity.md and validated against the four thought experiments above.

id: SOUL-WP-0009-T03
status: todo
priority: low

Sharpen the boundary flagged in draft §16.3 and the TE-09 asymmetric- recognition addition — when exactly does a recognized-but-autonomous individual cross into Social Beinghood?

Done when: concepts/being.md / concepts/recognition.md state a testable boundary condition, checked against TE-05 and TE-09.

T04 — Empirical/operational metrics scoping

id: SOUL-WP-0009-T04
status: todo
priority: low

Scope (not necessarily build) measurable proxies for the A-axis (B1–B8), B-axis (P1–P12), and continuity profiles (draft §16.4). This is a scoping task — full metric development may become its own workplan.

Done when: a scoping note exists identifying which axes are plausibly measurable now vs. which require new instruments.

T05 — Moral/legal personhood companion line (explicitly separate)

id: SOUL-WP-0009-T05
status: todo
priority: low

Per SCOPE.md's out-of-scope boundary ("Silent moral/legal personhood claims"), scope this as a separate, explicitly-bounded companion research line rather than loosening the descriptive core. Draft a one-page charter for that companion line (could become its own future workplan) — do not attempt the mapping itself here.

Done when: a short charter note exists (e.g. research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md) stating scope, non-goals, and the explicit boundary against the descriptive core.

T06 — External review / publication pathway decision

id: SOUL-WP-0009-T06
status: todo
priority: medium

Using the freeze candidate as the review artifact, decide the pathway: internal circulation, external pre-print, conference/journal target, or further revision cycles before either. This is a founder-gate decision.

Done when: decision recorded via record_decision/resolve_decision naming the chosen pathway and next concrete step.

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