tegwick bd79b100c2 Complete SOUL-WP-0009: resolve RQ4 and publication pathway, deliver T02-T05

- 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>

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Soul

Status: retained (RQ4 resolved 2026-09-28, SOUL-WP-0009-T01)
Working gloss: Soul = Relation
See also: H5, RQ4 (resolved), RN-001 Finding 14, RN-005 SF-C055

Working definition (revised)

The relation-bearing dimension through which interactions become persistent relationships, commitments, provenance, history, reputation, and consequences connecting a Being to other systems across time.

In Soul Frame: Soul = Relation.

What Soul is not

Not Soul	Belongs to
System/environment boundary	Being
Operational channels	Body
Adaptive interpretation	Mind

Initial definition overloaded Soul with boundary + relations + legacy. Phase I strips boundary out.

Temporal role

Body — present operational coupling
Mind — interpretation and control of possible states
Soul — diachronic relational continuity and propagated effects

Soul continuity can cross Being-identity discontinuities (legacy, models in others, works, Ghosts).

Collision analysis

High risk with religious/metaphysical “soul”. RQ4 resolved 2026-09-28: retain. The explanatory payoff of the relational reading (H5) and the Body/Mind/Soul mnemonic outweigh the collision cost; the cost is managed by keeping the non-metaphysical disclaimer explicit and prominent everywhere the term is introduced, not by renaming.

Open issues

Relations vs accumulated consequences vs both (packaging)
How Soul relates to lineage after forks

Closed: rename candidates (RQ4) — decision recorded, see workplans/SOUL-WP-0009-paper-agenda-and-external-review.md T01.

Sources

research/foundations/001-closure-model-relation-recognition.md §14–16
research/foundations/ResearchNote005-IdentityContinuityStressTest.md SF-C055

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