A systems-theoretic framework for person-like informational beings.
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- T01 (RQ4): retain "Soul" - resolved with operator; Terminology.md, concepts/soul.md, OpenQuestions.md, Claims.md, paper/draft.md updated. - T02: lexicographic continuity-weighting procedure in concepts/identity.md, validated against TE-02/03/04/08. - T03: testable Being-vs-Social-Being boundary (three-part recognition test) in concepts/recognition.md and concepts/being.md, validated against TE-05/09. - T04: research/metrics-scoping-note.md - per-axis measurability scoping. - T05: research/law-governance/moral-legal-personhood-charter.md - bounded companion-line charter, explicitly not the mapping itself. - T06: publication pathway resolved with operator - internal circulation only, as paper-one for coulomb-research, following the same staged trajectory as coulomb-research's own paper-zero. Marks SOUL-WP-0009 finished. Opens SOUL-WP-0010 (proposed, not started) to carry forward the two multi-step residuals from T04/T05. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Assistant: claude-code Assistant-Model: sonnet Assistant-Process: 136745@bnt-lap001 Assistant-Session: 2e334b58-ed31-48ed-8156-d09f8ed0781f |
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Soul Frame
A systems-theoretic framework for person-like informational beings.
When does an informational system become someone that another someone can know?
Working triad: Body = Action · Mind = Model · Soul = Relation
Start here
| Document | Purpose |
|---|---|
INTENT.md |
Purpose, stance, scope, success criteria |
SoulFrameIntroduction.md |
Current conceptual exposition |
ResearchProgram.md |
Full research agenda, workstreams, method, phases |
Repository layout
soul-frame/
├── INTENT.md # Why this project exists
├── ResearchProgram.md # Research agenda
├── Terminology.md # Canonical glossary (working)
├── Claims.md # Claim and evidence register
├── OpenQuestions.md # Unresolved questions
├── ThoughtExperiments.md # Adversarial definition tests
├── SoulFrameIntroduction.md # Narrative framework draft
│
├── research/ # Discipline- and theme-organized work
│ └── paper-dialogues/ # One-paper comparative commentaries
├── sources/ # Bibliography and source notes
├── concepts/ # Working concept definitions
├── paper/ # Outline and drafts
└── history/ # Dated snapshots of prior drafts
Research instruments
- Terminology — keep definitions small and revisable
- Claims — every major proposition linked to literature
- Open questions — explicit unfinished business
- Thought experiments — stress-test the ontology
Concept files
Working notes for core terms live under concepts/: Being, Body, Mind,
Soul, identity, personhood, recognition, character, persona, agent, spirit, ghost.
Research areas
Workstream folders under research/ follow the program map
(systems theory, cybernetics, philosophy of mind, personal identity, cognitive
science, social cognition, sociology, personhood, AI agents, artificial persons,
character/persona, spirits, ghosts/digital legacy, law/governance, fiction).
Research phases (summary)
- Foundations — systems theory, cybernetics, mind, identity
- Interaction — social cognition, recognition, intersubjectivity
- Personhood — person, character, persona
- Artificial beings — agents and persistent AI identity
- Spirits and Ghosts — simulation, legacy, authority
- Synthesis — crosswalk, evidence register, revised ontology
- Paper — research-grounded Soul Frame paper
Details: ResearchProgram.md.
Parallel research line — paper dialogues
Comparative readings of single external works against Soul Frame:
- Setup:
research/paper-dialogues/README.txt - First paper: Deppert, Die Evolution des Bewusstseins →
research/paper-dialogues/001-deppert-evolution-des-bewusstseins/
Status
Research phases I–VI complete; paper-dialogues line opened (Deppert first).
Conceptual draft in SoulFrameIntroduction.md remains provisional relative to
research instruments.