tegwick dcd9f8dba6 Complete Phase III personhood (SOUL-WP-0004)

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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Persona

Status: revised (Phase III, 2026-08-12)
See also: H8, TE-06, research/character-persona/character-persona-performance-map.md

Working definition

A Persona is the situated presentation of a Being (or APE) within a particular context, purpose, role, and relationship.

Historical root: persona as mask.

Persona = projection of a Being into context

Selects capabilities, knowledge, memories, role, style, disclosure boundaries, and manifestation surface for this interaction ecology.

Stack

Being ≠ Persona ≠ Character ≠ Actor

One Being can sustain many Personae without identity fragmentation when continuity and integration hold (H8).

Failure modes

Isolated persona memory/commitment islands → fragment risk
Mask presented as separate Being → misrecognition
Product “persona” reified as ontology → category error

Sources

Goffman presentation of self; role theory; avatar/virtual identity studies; Introduction §12; TE-06.

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