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Map model-based mind, co-adaptive social cognition, and recognition/social Beinghood into instruments and workstream notes. Support H3/H4/H7, judge TE-09, write phase-ii-interaction-synthesis.md, finish SOUL-WP-0003, and mark SOUL-WP-0004 ready.
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# Open Questions Register
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Questions that remain unresolved or contested. Link related entries in
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`Claims.md`, `ThoughtExperiments.md`, and `concepts/` where helpful.
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**Phase I update:** 2026-08-12 — several RQs refined; detail OQs from RN-005/006
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indexed below.
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---
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## RQ1 — What constitutes a Being?
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**Phase I status:** refined, not closed.
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Working answer: multi-layer profile (autonomous individuality + personhood +
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addressability + recognition). Still open:
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- Weighting and thresholds of B1–B8
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- Observer-relative individuation without arbitrariness
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- Nested levels (colony, collective, multi-Body)
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## RQ2 — What constitutes personhood?
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**Phase I status:** deferred to Phase III; necessity of *some* personhood layer
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for Beinghood established (daemon false positive).
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- Descriptive vs social vs moral vs legal still must stay distinct
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- Dimension list for descriptive personhood incomplete
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## RQ3 — What constitutes a Mind?
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**Phase II status:** model-based reading **supported** (H3); Social Mind SM1–SM8
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architecture adopted provisionally. Remaining:
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- Precise definition of “model” (OQ-055) — inclusive working def in concepts/mind.md
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- Minimal apparatus for non-social vs social Mind
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- Recursive depth for personhood (OQ-056)
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- When common ground becomes collective Mind (OQ-067)
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## RQ4 — What constitutes a Soul?
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**Phase I–II status:** revised definition (boundary removed); **not closed**.
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Phase II ends by pointing to Cluster D: what persists from interactions beyond
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immediate models (relational persistence = Soul’s domain).
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- Rename vs retain “Soul”
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- Packaging: relations vs consequences vs both
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- Relation to lineage after identity ends
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## RQ5 — How does identity persist?
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**Phase I status:** structure clarified (Identity ≠ Continuity ≠ Lineage); open:
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- Continuity weighting (OQ-043)
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- Dormancy ontology (OQ-046/047)
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- Fork rights and relationship branching (OQ-050/051)
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- Ghost authority and gradual transition (OQ-052/053)
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- Merge responsibility (OQ-054)
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## RQ6 — How does recognition create social beinghood?
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**Phase II status:** **refined answer available** — recognition constitutive of
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*social* Beinghood, not bare autonomous individuality; three senses fixed;
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TE-09 judged. Remaining:
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- Exact label policy for Beinghood v0.2 vs “autonomous individual”
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- Minimal intentional vs social recognition conditions
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- Moral/legal recognition deferred to Phase III
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## RQ7 — What is character?
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**Phase I status:** deferred (Phase III); character neither necessary nor
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sufficient for identity (RN-004).
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## RQ8 — What kinds of artificial Being exist?
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**Phase I status:** partial — Sp. begins new lineage; Gh. defaults to authorized
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succession; Agent functional vs autonomous split. Full typology Phase IV–V.
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## Cross-cutting
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- Memory vs continuity thresholds
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- Operational / identity / social death / legacy interactions
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- Law/governance map (Phase V/XII)
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- Fiction as conceptual laboratory (Phase VI/XIII)
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### Indexed OQs from research notes
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| ID | Topic | Note |
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| OQ-043–054 | Identity continuity governance | RN-005 |
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| OQ-055–068 | Social mind / co-adaptation | RN-006 |
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## Resolved / refined (Phase I–II)
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| Item | Disposition | Pointer |
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| Boundary belongs to Soul? | **No** — boundary to Being | RN-001 SF-C002 |
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| Autonomy alone = Beinghood? | **No** | RN-003 principal falsification |
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| Identity = memory dump? | **No** | RN-004/005 |
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| Identity = Continuity? | **No** — may branch | Parfit; RN-004 |
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| Soul = boundary? | **No** — Soul = relation | RN-001 §14 |
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| Actor = Being? | **No** | H6; TE-04 |
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| Mind = consciousness? | **No** — model-based control | H3; Phase II map |
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| Co-adaptation = model exchange? | **No** — joint evolution via interaction | H4; RN-006 |
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| Shared intentionality = Social Mind? | **No** — special case of cooperation | RN-006 |
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| Recognition creates systemic Being? | **No** — creates/enables Social Beinghood | H7; TE-09 |
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| Unrecognized intelligence impossible? | **No** — autonomy without social Beinghood | TE-09 |
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