tegwick 807d6b17f6 Complete Phase II interaction (SOUL-WP-0003)

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.

2026-08-12 01:21:49 +02:00

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Mind

Status: retained / refined (Phase II, 2026-08-12)
Working gloss: Mind = Model (adaptive control through models)
See also: H3, H4, RQ3, RN-001, RN-006, research/cognitive-science/mind-as-model-map.md

Working definition

The adaptive modeling and regulatory dimension of a Being: how it constructs and revises models of itself, others, environment, and relationships, and uses them to guide action.

Mind = Model

“Model” means an action-guiding structure that can be revised, not only explicit propositional representation.

Precedents

Tradition	Contribution
Ashby; Conant & Ashby 1970	regulation requires a model
Predictive processing / active inference	generative models unite perception and action
Inverse planning (Baker et al.)	Other-Model as inference from behavior
Extended / distributed cognition	Mind not confined to one substrate
Social cognition (RN-006)	self/other/relation models co-adapt through interaction

ID	Model
SM1	World
SM2	Self
SM3	Other
SM4	Reflected-Self
SM5	Relationship
SM6	Shared Situation
SM7	Common Ground
SM8	Generalized Social

Social Mind is a specialization of Mind for multi-Being interaction — not a second kind of mind.

Co-adaptive model building

Joint evolution of models through interaction (not model exchange). Models can be self-confirming or self-defeating because they change the evidence stream.

Definition: research/social-cognition/co-adaptive-model-building.md

Quality metrics (beyond accuracy)

Calibration, revisability, differentiation of counterparts, perspective separation (mine / yours / yours-of-mine).

Crosswalk (Phase II)

Adjacent term	Similarity	Difference
generative model (PP)	action-guiding predictive structure	PP often neural-centric
theory of mind	other-modeling	ToM often private; Social Mind is interactional
common ground	shared acceptance	one model family (SM7), not whole Mind
participatory sense-making	interaction constitutes understanding	may reject “model” vocabulary

Open issues

OQ-055 precise scope of “model”
Recursive depth for personhood (OQ-056)
Collective Mind boundaries (OQ-067)

Sources

Phase I foundations 001; Phase II cognitive-science map; RN-006 + references

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