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Map descriptive personhood dimensions P1–P12, four kinds of personhood, and Character/Persona/Actor separations. Support H2/H8, judge TE-06, write phase-iii-personhood-synthesis.md, finish SOUL-WP-0004, and mark SOUL-WP-0005 ready.
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Open Questions Register
Questions that remain unresolved or contested. Link related entries in
Claims.md, ThoughtExperiments.md, and concepts/ where helpful.
Phase I update: 2026-08-12 — several RQs refined; detail OQs from RN-005/006 indexed below.
RQ1 — What constitutes a Being?
Phase I status: refined, not closed.
Working answer: multi-layer profile (autonomous individuality + personhood + addressability + recognition). Still open:
- Weighting and thresholds of B1–B8
- Observer-relative individuation without arbitrariness
- Nested levels (colony, collective, multi-Body)
RQ2 — What constitutes personhood?
Phase III status: working answer — multidimensional descriptive profile P1–P12; four kinds (descriptive/social/moral/legal); default = descriptive. Remaining:
- Weighting / sufficiency thresholds for Beinghood v0.2
- Moral and legal maps (explicitly deferred)
- Measurement methods for artificial systems
RQ3 — What constitutes a Mind?
Phase II status: model-based reading supported (H3); Social Mind SM1–SM8 architecture adopted provisionally. Remaining:
- Precise definition of “model” (OQ-055) — inclusive working def in concepts/mind.md
- Minimal apparatus for non-social vs social Mind
- Recursive depth for personhood (OQ-056)
- When common ground becomes collective Mind (OQ-067)
RQ4 — What constitutes a Soul?
Phase I–II status: revised definition (boundary removed); not closed. Phase II ends by pointing to Cluster D: what persists from interactions beyond immediate models (relational persistence = Soul’s domain).
- Rename vs retain “Soul”
- Packaging: relations vs consequences vs both
- Relation to lineage after identity ends
RQ5 — How does identity persist?
Phase I status: structure clarified (Identity ≠ Continuity ≠ Lineage); open:
- Continuity weighting (OQ-043)
- Dormancy ontology (OQ-046/047)
- Fork rights and relationship branching (OQ-050/051)
- Ghost authority and gradual transition (OQ-052/053)
- Merge responsibility (OQ-054)
RQ6 — How does recognition create social beinghood?
Phase II status: refined answer available — recognition constitutive of social Beinghood, not bare autonomous individuality; three senses fixed; TE-09 judged. Remaining:
- Exact label policy for Beinghood v0.2 vs “autonomous individual”
- Minimal intentional vs social recognition conditions
- Moral/legal recognition deferred to Phase III
RQ7 — What is character?
Phase III status: working answer — dispositional structure ≠ state ≠ persona ≠ identity; H8/TE-06 for multi-Persona. Remaining:
- Integration thresholds across masks
- Computational character beyond style mimicry (eval methods)
- Relation of Character to Sp./Gh. provenance (Phase V)
RQ8 — What kinds of artificial Being exist?
Phase I status: partial — Sp. begins new lineage; Gh. defaults to authorized succession; Agent functional vs autonomous split. Full typology Phase IV–V.
Cross-cutting
- Memory vs continuity thresholds
- Operational / identity / social death / legacy interactions
- Law/governance map (Phase V/XII)
- Fiction as conceptual laboratory (Phase VI/XIII)
Indexed OQs from research notes
| ID | Topic | Note |
|---|---|---|
| OQ-043–054 | Identity continuity governance | RN-005 |
| OQ-055–068 | Social mind / co-adaptation | RN-006 |
Resolved / refined (Phase I–II)
| Item | Disposition | Pointer |
|---|---|---|
| Boundary belongs to Soul? | No — boundary to Being | RN-001 SF-C002 |
| Autonomy alone = Beinghood? | No | RN-003 principal falsification |
| Identity = memory dump? | No | RN-004/005 |
| Identity = Continuity? | No — may branch | Parfit; RN-004 |
| Soul = boundary? | No — Soul = relation | RN-001 §14 |
| Actor = Being? | No | H6; TE-04 |
| Mind = consciousness? | No — model-based control | H3; Phase II map |
| Co-adaptation = model exchange? | No — joint evolution via interaction | H4; RN-006 |
| Shared intentionality = Social Mind? | No — special case of cooperation | RN-006 |
| Recognition creates systemic Being? | No — creates/enables Social Beinghood | H7; TE-09 |
| Unrecognized intelligence impossible? | No — autonomy without social Beinghood | TE-09 |
| Personhood = Beinghood? | No — H2; APE vs Being | Phase III |
| Character = Identity? | No | RN-004; Phase III |
| Persona = Being? | No — projection | H8; TE-06 |
| Descriptive personhood = moral/legal? | No — four kinds | Phase III |