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Integrate research/foundations notes 001–005 into Terminology, Claims, bibliography, concept notes, thought experiments, and open questions. Write phase-i-foundations-synthesis.md, finish SOUL-WP-0002, and mark SOUL-WP-0003 ready for interaction research.
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# Being
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**Status:** revised (Phase I, 2026-08-12)
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**See also:** `Terminology.md`, RQ1, H1–H2, H7, RN-001–003
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## Working definition (v0.2)
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> An **autonomous informational individual** exhibiting sufficiently coherent
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> dimensions of **personhood** to become an **addressable** entity that is
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> **recognized** by other Beings as a persistent counterpart.
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```text
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Being ≈ AutonomousIndividuality + Personhood + Addressability + Recognition
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```
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Not arithmetic — four requirement *families*.
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## Autonomous individuality profile (substrate)
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From RN-002 (renamed in RN-003 so autonomy alone is not labeled “Being”):
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| Code | Dimension |
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|---|---|
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| B1 | Individuability |
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| B2 | Temporal integrity |
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| B3 | Constitutive integration |
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| B4 | Self-maintenance participation |
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| B5 | Endogenous viability |
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| B6 | Adaptive regulation |
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| B7 | Interactional asymmetry |
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| B8 | Identity-preserving transformation |
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Treat as a **profile**, not eight Boolean gates.
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## Stack
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```text
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Informational process
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→ Individuated system
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→ Autonomous individual
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→ (+ personhood, addressability, recognition) → Being
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→ (+ reciprocal relations) → Social Being
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```
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## Notes
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- Not restricted to biological organisms; not automatic for every computational process.
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- Autonomy-only reading yields false positives (self-maintaining daemon, control plane).
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- Personhood-only reading yields false positives (stateless person-like chatbots as APE).
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- Distinguish systemic individuality from social recognition of existence.
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## Crosswalk
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| Adjacent term | Similarity | Difference |
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|---|---|---|
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| autopoietic system | self-maintaining organization | biological autopoiesis not required; contested beyond life |
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| autonomous agent | multi-criteria agency | agent often functional; Being requires personhood layer |
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| person | personhood layer | personhood ≠ full Beinghood |
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| individual | individuability | may lack autonomy/personhood/recognition |
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| operationally closed system | closure | closure alone insufficient for “someone” |
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## Sources
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`research/foundations/001-*.md`, `002-*.md`, `003-beinghood-stress-test.md`
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