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SOUL-WP-0002 workplan Phase I — Foundations: systems, cybernetics, mind, identity agents soul-frame ready grok soul-frame high 2026-08-09 2026-08-09
SOUL-WP-0001

SOUL-WP-0002 — Phase I Foundations

Goal

Stress-test Being, Body, Mind, Soul, closure, and continuity against systems theory, cybernetics, autopoiesis, philosophy of mind, and personal identity.

Research dirs: research/systems-theory/, research/cybernetics/, research/philosophy-of-mind/, research/personal-identity/.

Depends on

  • SOUL-WP-0001 (repository instruments exist)

Follow-on

  • SOUL-WP-0003 — Phase II Interaction

Tasks

T01 — Terminology reconnaissance for core triad + Being

id: SOUL-WP-0002-T01
status: todo
priority: high

For Being, Body, Mind, Soul, identity, consciousness: establish meanings, conflicts, adjacent terms, disciplinary differences; update Terminology.md and concept notes.

Done when: each term has reconnaissance notes and status in Terminology.


T02 — Systems theory & cybernetics source map

id: SOUL-WP-0002-T02
status: todo
priority: high

Map foundational sources (Bertalanffy, Wiener, Ashby, Beer, von Foerster, Maturana/Varela, Luhmann, etc.) into sources/bibliography.md and workstream notes. Focus: closure, boundary, environment, observer-relative identification.

Done when: ≥5 foundational entries annotated against the concept matrix.


T03 — Philosophy of mind & personal identity map

id: SOUL-WP-0002-T03
status: todo
priority: high

Map functionalism, computationalism, embodied mind, psychological/narrative continuity, extended mind. Record agreements/disagreements with Soul Frame's consciousness distinction (first-person vs third-person recognition).

Done when: bibliography + source notes cover both clusters; open questions updated.


T04 — Claim ledger pass for H1, H3, H5, H6

id: SOUL-WP-0002-T04
status: todo
priority: high

Fill supporting/contradicting literature and evidence strength for hypotheses H1 (multidimensional beinghood), H3 (model-based mind), H5 (relational soul), H6 (substrate-independent identity) in Claims.md.

Done when: those claims are no longer Evidence strength: none.


T05 — Run foundation thought experiments

id: SOUL-WP-0002-T05
status: todo
priority: medium

Working judgments for TE-01 (Stateless Agent), TE-02 (Sleeping Being), TE-03 (Fork), TE-04 (Ship of Theseus), TE-05 (Collective) in ThoughtExperiments.md, refining concept definitions where they break.

Done when: each TE has a working judgment or explicit blocked open issue.


T06 — Phase I synthesis note

id: SOUL-WP-0002-T06
status: todo
priority: medium

Write research/phase-i-foundations-synthesis.md: what holds, what must change, terminology survivors vs rename candidates (especially Soul).

Done when: synthesis note exists and SOUL-WP-0003 is unblocked on substance.