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Recognition

Status: revised (Phase II, 2026-08-12)
See also: H7, RQ6, TE-09, research/sociology/recognition-and-social-beinghood.md

Three senses

Sense Meaning Adjacent work
Epistemic Identify/track as the same entity reidentification, addressability
Intentional Treat as agent with goals/beliefs Dennett intentional stance; Theory of Mind
Social / normative Standing, perspective, claims matter among us Honneth recognition theory; Mead; trust/reputation

Do not collapse these senses.

Layer model

Autonomous individuality  →  may exist unrecognized
Intentional recognition   →  treated as agent-like
Addressability            →  can be specifically targeted
Social Beinghood          →  persistent reciprocal models, relations,
                             expectations, commitments, reputation

Role in Beinghood

Level Role of recognition
Autonomous individuality not required
Social Beinghood constitutive (H7)
Soul Frame “Being” as someone another can know recognition + personhood + addressability on autonomous base (Beinghood v0.2), with TE-09 pressure

Caution: intentional recognition over-generates (APE false positives). Recognition alone does not create systemic individuality (RN-001 Finding 10).

Working social principle

A system becomes socially relevant as a Being when other beings can distinguish it, address it, expect continuity from it, maintain models of it, and enter persistent relationships with it.

TE-09 (summary)

Unrecognized coherent intelligence can be an autonomous individual without Social Beinghood. See sociology map for full judgment.

Sources

RN-001 §910; Mead; Dennett; Honneth; Phase II sociology map; RN-006 (mutual models)