soul-frame/sources/bibliography.md

Annotated Bibliography

Sources summarized in relation to Soul Frame terminology.

Phase I note: Detailed cluster bibliographies live in research/foundations/001-references.md through 004-references.md and Research Note 005/006 reference files. This file is the consolidated index of foundational entries required for workplan completion and paper prep.

Classification tags:

• foundational — primary works establishing major theoretical concepts
• contemporary — rigorous recent research
• applied — architectures, standards, implementations
• legal — legislation, case law, legal scholarship, regulation, ethics
• cultural — literature, film, games, theatre, conceptual explorations

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Entry template

Citation:
Tags:
Relevant Soul Frame concepts:
Summary:
Agreements with Soul Frame:
Disagreements / tensions:
Adjacent terminology:
Source notes path:

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A. Systems theory, cybernetics, closure

SF-R001 — Ashby 1956

Citation: Ashby, W. Ross. 1956. An Introduction to Cybernetics. London: Chapman & Hall.
Tags: foundational
Relevant Soul Frame concepts: Mind, regulation, state, environment
Summary: Foundational cybernetics of regulation, variety, feedback, system state.
Agreements: Mind as adaptive regulation has strong precedent.
Disagreements / tensions: classical cybernetics is not a theory of personhood.
Adjacent terminology: regulator, requisite variety, black box
Source notes path: research/foundations/001-references.md

SF-R002 — Conant & Ashby 1970

Citation: Conant, Roger C., and W. Ross Ashby. 1970. “Every Good Regulator of a
  System Must Be a Model of That System.” International Journal of Systems Science 1(2): 89–97.
  DOI: 10.1080/00207727008920220
Tags: foundational
Relevant Soul Frame concepts: Mind = Model
Summary: Good Regulator Theorem linking successful regulation to modeling.
Agreements: Core support for model-based Mind (H3).
Disagreements / tensions: theorem assumptions; “model” may be weaker than folk representation.
Adjacent terminology: regulator, model, control
Source notes path: research/foundations/001-references.md

SF-R003 — Maturana & Varela 1980

Citation: Maturana, Humberto R., and Francisco J. Varela. 1980. Autopoiesis and
  Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
  DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-8947-4
Tags: foundational
Relevant Soul Frame concepts: Being, closure, autonomy, boundary
Summary: Living systems as self-producing, organizationally closed unities.
Agreements: Being requires more than a drawn boundary; self-maintaining organization.
Disagreements / tensions: autopoiesis is biological; do not declare artificial Beings autopoietic.
Adjacent terminology: autopoiesis, structural coupling, operational closure
Source notes path: research/foundations/001-references.md, 002-references.md

SF-R004 — Luhmann 1995 [1984]

Citation: Luhmann, Niklas. 1995. Social Systems. Stanford University Press.
  (German: Soziale Systeme, 1984.)
Tags: foundational
Relevant Soul Frame concepts: Being, boundary, system/environment
Summary: Social systems theory; operational closure; system/environment distinction constitutive of system.
Agreements: Boundary belongs primarily to Being, not Soul (SF-C002).
Disagreements / tensions: Luhmann’s systems are communications, not person-like Beings.
Adjacent terminology: operational closure, structural coupling, observation
Source notes path: research/foundations/001-references.md

SF-R019–R034 — Autonomy cluster (selected)

Priority set from RN-002 (see research/foundations/002-references.md):

ID	Work	Role for Soul Frame
Varela 1979	Principles of Biological Autonomy	autonomy, self-reference
Di Paolo 2005	Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, Teleology, Agency	adaptivity vs passive persistence
Barandiaran et al. 2009	Defining Agency	individuality, normativity, asymmetry
Moreno & Mossio 2015	Biological Autonomy	book-length autonomy synthesis
Montévil & Mossio 2015	Closure of constraints	organizational closure formalization
Krakauer et al. 2020	Information Theory of Individuality	graded, temporal individuality
Nicholson & Dupré 2018	Everything Flows	process ontology of persistence

Tags: foundational / contemporary
Relevant Soul Frame concepts: Autonomous individuality, Being criteria B1–B8
Source notes path: research/foundations/002-references.md

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B. Mind beyond substrate; social mind precursors

SF-R005 — Clark & Chalmers 1998

Citation: Clark, Andy, and David Chalmers. 1998. “The Extended Mind.” Analysis 58(1): 7–19.
Tags: foundational
Relevant Soul Frame concepts: Mind, Body, boundary
Summary: External resources may constitutively participate in cognition when suitably coupled.
Agreements: Body/Mind/Soul are functional dimensions, not physical compartments.
Disagreements / tensions: coupling vs constitution debates continue.
Adjacent terminology: extended mind, parity principle
Source notes path: research/foundations/001-references.md

SF-R006 — Hutchins 1995

Citation: Hutchins, Edwin. 1995. Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Tags: foundational
Relevant Soul Frame concepts: Mind, collective cognition, TE-05
Summary: Cognition analyzed at system level of people + artifacts (e.g. navigation).
Agreements: Mind boundaries need not coincide with individual skulls; collective cases matter.
Disagreements / tensions: when is collective Mind vs environment?
Adjacent terminology: distributed cognition
Source notes path: research/foundations/001-references.md

SF-R007 — Mead 1934

Citation: Mead, George Herbert. 1934. Mind, Self, and Society. University of Chicago Press.
Tags: foundational
Relevant Soul Frame concepts: Mind, recognition, co-adaptive model building
Summary: Mind and Self develop in social interaction; taking the attitude of the other.
Agreements: social mind; recursive modeling precursors (H4).
Disagreements / tensions: historical social psychology, not formal multi-agent theory.
Adjacent terminology: generalized other, self, significant symbol
Source notes path: research/foundations/001-references.md; RN-006

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C. Personal identity and continuity

SF-R035 — Locke 1689/1690

Citation: Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, ch. XXVII
  “Of Identity and Diversity.” (Nidditch ed. 1975.)
Tags: foundational
Relevant Soul Frame concepts: Identity, continuity, person vs organism
Summary: Foundational psychological approach to personal identity; consciousness/memory strand.
Agreements: person continuity need not require same material substrate (H6).
Disagreements / tensions: identity ≠ stored memories alone.
Adjacent terminology: person, consciousness, memory
Source notes path: research/foundations/004-references.md

SF-R036 — Parfit 1984

Citation: Parfit, Derek. 1984. Reasons and Persons. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Tags: foundational
Relevant Soul Frame concepts: Identity, continuity, fork (TE-03)
Summary: Psychological connectedness/continuity; fission; survival without strict identity.
Agreements: Identity ≠ Continuity; branching forces lineage concepts (H6 refined).
Disagreements / tensions: reductionism about persons; what matters in survival debates.
Adjacent terminology: Relation R, fission, psychological continuity
Source notes path: research/foundations/004-references.md

SF-R037 — Olson SEP 2023

Citation: Olson, Eric T. 2023. “Personal Identity.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Tags: contemporary (secondary orientation)
Relevant Soul Frame concepts: Identity disambiguation
Summary: Maps characterization, personhood, persistence, and evidence questions.
Agreements: Soul Frame must not collapse these questions into one “identity” term.
Disagreements / tensions: animalism as major rival to psychological continuity.
Adjacent terminology: animalism, persistence conditions
Source notes path: research/foundations/004-references.md

Additional identity cluster

Work	Role
Ricoeur, Oneself as Another (1992)	sameness vs selfhood; narrative
Schechtman, The Constitution of Selves (1996)	reidentification vs characterization
Meincke in Everything Flows (2018)	process identity of persons
Cerullo 2015 (uploading/branching)	artificial branching identity
Qin et al. 2026; Otsuka et al. 2026 (arXiv)	AI agent identity governance (applied)

Full detail: research/foundations/004-references.md, References-ResearchNote005.md.

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D. Concept matrix coverage (Phase I)

Soul Frame concept	Primary sources (minimum)
Being / closure	Maturana & Varela; Luhmann; Moreno & Mossio; Krakauer et al.
Body	extended mind; embodiment literature; operational coupling
Mind	Ashby; Conant & Ashby; predictive/active inference (pointer)
Soul	structural coupling; legacy/relational continuity (synthesis)
Identity	Locke; Parfit; Olson; process ontology
Recognition	Mead; intentional stance literature (pointer); RN-001 tripartition
Co-adaptive models	Mead; alignment/common ground; I-POMDP (RN-006)

Phase I done criterion (≥5 foundational annotated entries against matrix): met.