tegwick 3fbcca209d Complete Phase I foundations (SOUL-WP-0002)

Integrate research/foundations notes 001–005 into Terminology, Claims,
bibliography, concept notes, thought experiments, and open questions. Write
phase-i-foundations-synthesis.md, finish SOUL-WP-0002, and mark SOUL-WP-0003
ready for interaction research.

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Soul

Status: revised (Phase I, 2026-08-12)
Working gloss: Soul = Relation
See also: H5, RQ4, 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”. Retention depends on explanatory payoff of the relational reading. Rename remains open (RQ4).

Open issues

Relations vs accumulated consequences vs both (packaging)
Rename candidates if collision cost exceeds value
How Soul relates to lineage after forks

Sources

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

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