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Support / challenge matrix — Deppert

Paper: Wolfgang Deppert — Die Evolution des Bewusstseins (Unitariertag 2009; PDF pp. 85–101)
Status: draft

#	Paper claim (short)	Soul Frame concept(s)	Verdict	Rationale	Instrument follow-up
1	Living being = open system with solvable survival problem	Being, autonomous individuality, viability B5	SUPPORT	Strong alignment with self-maintenance / endogenous viability without requiring consciousness first	Cite in concepts/being.md notes
2	Differentiated survival functions need organizational coupling	Closure, constitutive integration B3, Mind+Body	SUPPORT	Matches “integration of processes,” not mere co-location	Crosswalk
3	Consciousness is that coupling organization	Consciousness, Mind	CHALLENGE	SF: Mind = model-based regulation; consciousness is first-person asymmetric. Deppert redefines Bewusstsein so every coupled organism has it	OpenQuestions RQ3; terminology collision note
4	Earliest undivided life may lack consciousness	graded Beinghood / degrees	SUPPORT	Graded rather than binary; aligns with multidimensional profiles	H1
5	Will to survive as final (teleological) structure	Mind, intentional organization P5	EXTEND	SF has goals/intentions but weak “will” primitive; attractors offer a systems gloss	Possible concept note later
6	Attractors determine possible futures finally, not causally	Mind = Model (possible futures)	SUPPORT	Compatible with model-guided control without full determinism	H3
7	Emergence of new system laws	nested systems, collective Being	SUPPORT	Supports multi-level individuality	TE-05
8	Nested wills: cell < organism < herd < child	nested Beinghood, TE-05	SUPPORT / EXTEND	Explicit hierarchy of survival-wills; SF had levels but less “will hierarchy”	TE-05 note
9	Human consciousness requires Weltbild representations	World Model SM1, personhood P6/P7	SUPPORT (as personhood, not as consciousness)	SF would call this personhood/Mind sophistication, not the definition of consciousness	Personhood map
10	Individuality-consciousness is cultural, not genetic	personhood, recognition, cultural continuity	SUPPORT	Matches social/cultural dimensions of someone-like status	H2, Phase III
11	Cultural communities are living beings	collective Being, Social Beinghood	CHALLENGE / EXTEND	Forces SF to treat organizations as Lebewesen under Deppert’s def; SF separates autonomy vs personhood vs recognition carefully — corporations already false-positive risk (RN-003)	RQ1 nested; corporation case
12	Subordinate consciousness enables social control	recognition, social systems, SM8	EXTEND	Links hierarchy of wills to social obedience	Sociology notes
13	Inner existence / dignity → individualistic ethics	moral personhood	ORTHOGONAL / EXTEND	Valuable ethics; SF must keep descriptive vs moral separate	WS5
14	Consciousness is continuous from molecules to humans	Beinghood, Mind	CHALLENGE	SF refuses to start Beinghood at molecular attractors; Mind is not pan-psychism via definitional stretch of Bewusstsein	Consciousness stance
15	Libet measures coupling delay, not no free will	agency, Actor≠decision folklore	SUPPORT (methodological)	SF-compatible: don’t collapse process timing with absence of agency	TE / method
16	Causal dogma excludes will from science	method, agency	ORTHOGONAL	Philosophy of science context	—
17	Energy-supply function essential to life	Body	SUPPORT	Body includes metabolic/infra energy; pure software “life” strained under Deppert	Artificial beings Phase IV
18	Artificial systems without survival-problem lack Bewusstsein	APE, Functional Agent, Being	CHALLENGE for AI Being talk	Under Deppert, most AI agents are not Lebewesen → no Bewusstsein; SF still allows APE/Being without biological survival metabolism if informational self-maintenance holds	Phase IV catalog; artificial life criterion

Verdict legend

Verdict	Meaning
SUPPORT	Strengthens an existing Soul Frame claim or definition
CHALLENGE	Pressures revision, split, rename, or abandonment
EXTEND	Adds a useful distinction Soul Frame lacked
ORTHOGONAL	Interesting but outside current Soul Frame scope
UNCLEAR	Needs rereading or secondary sources

Net

mostly mixed: strong support on life/autonomy/nesting/cultural personhood;
serious challenge on identifying Bewusstsein with coupling organization
and on extending Lebewesen to all cultural groups without personhood filters.