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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> Assistant: claude-code Assistant-Model: sonnet Assistant-Process: 136745@bnt-lap001 Assistant-Session: 2e334b58-ed31-48ed-8156-d09f8ed0781f
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---
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id: SOUL-WP-0009
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type: workplan
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title: "Phase VIII — Paper research agenda and external review pathway"
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domain: agents
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repo: soul-frame
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status: proposed
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flavor: research
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owner: grok
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topic_slug: soul-frame
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priority: medium
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created: "2026-09-28"
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updated: "2026-09-28"
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depends_on:
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- SOUL-WP-0008
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---
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# SOUL-WP-0009 — Phase VIII: Research Agenda and External Review
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## Goal
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Carry forward the open research agenda from the frozen paper draft
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(`history/260928-SOUL-WP-0008-paper-freeze-v1.md` §17; `paper/draft.md` §16–17)
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and decide the publication/external-review pathway. This workplan is the
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residual of SOUL-WP-0008 — the freeze candidate is a stable snapshot, not a
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finished paper, and the items below are multi-step research/decision work
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that should not be parked in `SCOPE.md` prose.
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## Depends on
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- **SOUL-WP-0008** Phase VII paper (freeze candidate: T01–T04 done, 2026-09-28)
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## Tasks
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### T01 — Soul naming decision (RQ4)
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```task
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id: SOUL-WP-0009-T01
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status: todo
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priority: medium
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```
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Resolve retain-vs-rename for "Soul" (Terminology.md; draft §8, §16.1). Produce
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a decision record, not just more discussion — this has been open since
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Phase I.
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**Done when:** decision recorded (`record_decision`/`resolve_decision`) with
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rationale, and `Terminology.md` + `paper/draft.md` updated to match.
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---
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### T02 — Continuity dimension weighting
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```task
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id: SOUL-WP-0009-T02
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status: todo
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priority: medium
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```
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Develop a principled way to weigh conflicts between continuity dimensions
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(causal, organizational, psychological, autobiographical/narrative,
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normative, relational) for hard cases (draft §16.2). Test against TE-02,
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TE-03, TE-04, TE-08.
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**Done when:** a weighting scheme (or explicit non-arithmetic decision
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procedure) is documented in `concepts/identity.md` and validated against the
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four thought experiments above.
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---
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### T03 — Recognition's seat: Being vs. Social Being
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```task
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id: SOUL-WP-0009-T03
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status: todo
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priority: low
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```
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Sharpen the boundary flagged in draft §16.3 and the TE-09 asymmetric-
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recognition addition — when exactly does a recognized-but-autonomous
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individual cross into Social Beinghood?
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**Done when:** `concepts/being.md` / `concepts/recognition.md` state a
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testable boundary condition, checked against TE-05 and TE-09.
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---
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### T04 — Empirical/operational metrics scoping
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```task
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id: SOUL-WP-0009-T04
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status: todo
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priority: low
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```
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Scope (not necessarily build) measurable proxies for the A-axis (B1–B8),
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B-axis (P1–P12), and continuity profiles (draft §16.4). This is a scoping
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task — full metric development may become its own workplan.
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**Done when:** a scoping note exists identifying which axes are plausibly
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measurable now vs. which require new instruments.
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---
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### T05 — Moral/legal personhood companion line (explicitly separate)
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```task
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id: SOUL-WP-0009-T05
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status: todo
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priority: low
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```
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Per SCOPE.md's out-of-scope boundary ("Silent moral/legal personhood
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claims"), scope this as a **separate, explicitly-bounded** companion
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research line rather than loosening the descriptive core. Draft a one-page
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charter for that companion line (could become its own future workplan) —
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do not attempt the mapping itself here.
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**Done when:** a short charter note exists (e.g.
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`research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md`) stating scope,
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non-goals, and the explicit boundary against the descriptive core.
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---
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### T06 — External review / publication pathway decision
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```task
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id: SOUL-WP-0009-T06
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status: todo
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priority: medium
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```
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Using the freeze candidate as the review artifact, decide the pathway:
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internal circulation, external pre-print, conference/journal target, or
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further revision cycles before either. This is a founder-gate decision.
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**Done when:** decision recorded via `record_decision`/`resolve_decision`
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naming the chosen pathway and next concrete step.
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