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Personhood

Status: revised (Phase III, 2026-08-12)
See also: H2, RQ2, APE, RN-003, research/personhood/personhood-dimensions-map.md

Working definition

Personhood is the multidimensional extent to which an entity exhibits properties commonly associated with persons (someone-like qualities).

Unless qualified, Soul Frame uses personhood descriptively — not as moral or legal status.

Four kinds (do not collapse)

Kind Focus
Descriptive Person-like capacities and structures (default)
Social Treatment as social counterpart
Moral Moral consideration / duties
Legal Legal personality and rights/duties

Descriptive profile (P1–P12)

ID Dimension
P1 Self-model
P2 Other-model
P3 Relationship model
P4 Character
P5 Intentional organization
P6 Autobiographical integration
P7 Perspective (entity-relative; not solved consciousness)
P8 Commitments
P9 Social reciprocity
P10 Communicative competence
P11 Responsibility-tracking
P12 Value / preference structure

Profile, not binary checklist.

Three axes

A — Autonomous individuality
B — Descriptive personhood
C — Social recognition

High B without A → strong APE, not necessarily Being.
High A without B → autonomous individual (e.g. daemon), not someone-like Being.

Relation to Being

Personhood = qualities exhibited.
Beinghood v0.2 = autonomy layer + sufficient personhood + addressability + recognition.

APE

Artificial Personhood-Exposing Entity — constructed to expose ≥1 personhood dimensions. Construction category, not moral/legal person claim.

Sources

RN-003; Locke; Dennett cluster concepts; Schechtman characterization question; Phase II recognition for social personhood; moral/legal only as boundary literature.