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Map model-based mind, co-adaptive social cognition, and recognition/social Beinghood into instruments and workstream notes. Support H3/H4/H7, judge TE-09, write phase-ii-interaction-synthesis.md, finish SOUL-WP-0003, and mark SOUL-WP-0004 ready.
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# Co-Adaptive Model Building — Social Cognition Map (Phase II)
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**Workplan:** SOUL-WP-0003-T02
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**Date:** 2026-08-12
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**Primary research body:** `research/foundations/Research Note 006 — Social Mind and Co-Adaptive Model Building.md`
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---
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## 1. Working definition (RN-006)
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> **Co-Adaptive Model Building** is the recurrent process through which two or
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> more Beings update action-guiding models of themselves, one another, their
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> relationships, and their shared situation—potentially including bounded models
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> of one another's models—while actions generated from those models alter the
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> interaction process and thereby create the evidence for subsequent updates.
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**Not:** mere exchange or synchronization of identical models.
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**Not:** private Theory of Mind alone.
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---
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## 2. Tradition map
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| Tradition | Key sources | Soul Frame uptake |
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| Theory of Mind | Premack & Woodruff 1978 | Other-Model (SM3) |
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| Inverse planning | Baker, Saxe & Tenenbaum 2009; Shum et al. 2019 | Computational other-modeling |
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| Symbolic interaction | Mead 1934 | Reflected-Self; Generalized Social Model |
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| Dialogue / alignment | Pickering & Garrod 2004 | Interactive co-adaptation mechanisms |
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| Common ground | Clark & Wilkes-Gibbs 1986; Clark & Brennan 1991 | SM7 Common-Ground Model |
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| Shared intentionality | Tomasello et al. 2005; Bratman 1992 | Strong form of cooperation — **not** definition of Social Mind |
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| Joint action | Sebanz et al. 2006 | Coordination without full mental-state identity |
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| Participatory sense-making | De Jaegher & Di Paolo 2007, 2010 | Interaction process as constitutive |
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| Second-person neuroscience | Schilbach et al. 2013 | Interaction-centered social cognition |
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| Recursive multi-agent | Gmytrasiewicz & Doshi 2005 (I-POMDP) | Formal recursion bounds |
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| Relational schemas | Fiske 1992 | Relationship Model (SM5) types |
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## 3. Social Mind model families (SM1–SM8)
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| ID | Model | Question |
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| SM1 | World | What is the shared environment? |
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| SM2 | Self | What am I? |
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| SM3 | Other | What is B? |
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| SM4 | Reflected-Self | What does B model about me? |
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| SM5 | Relationship | What is A↔B? |
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| SM6 | Shared Situation | What is happening between us now? |
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| SM7 | Common Ground | What do we sufficiently share? |
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| SM8 | Generalized Social | Roles, norms, institutions, community |
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A Social Mind is a **coupled system** of these, not a single “user model.”
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## 4. Distinctions that must not collapse
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| Concept | Relation to co-adaptation |
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| Model equality | Same model contents — stronger than needed |
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| Model alignment | Compatible enough for coordination |
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| Common ground | Mutual acceptance for current purposes |
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| Shared intentionality | Joint goals/commitments — special case |
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| Recognition | Standing as counterpart — may begin before deep co-adaptation |
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Agreement and cooperation are **possible outcomes**, not definitional requirements
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of co-adaptive model building (conflict and deception are also co-adaptive).
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## 5. H4 assessment
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**H4:** Persistent interaction produces recursively adapting models of self, other,
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and relationship.
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| Support | Mead; alignment; common ground; participatory sense-making; inverse planning; I-POMDP recursion; RN-006 loop |
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| Conflict | Purely individualistic ToM that treats interaction as mere input; strong “no representation” enactivism if “model” is read narrowly |
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| Evidence strength | **moderate → strong** for the co-adaptation thesis as synthesis |
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| Status | **supported** (Phase II) |
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Refinement: co-adaptation is **joint evolution through interaction**, and models
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can be self-confirming or self-defeating because they change the evidence stream.
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## 6. TE implications
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- **TE-01 Stateless Agent:** partner may co-adapt *as if* continuous; co-adaptation
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on one side does not create diachronic Beinghood on the other.
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- **TE-06 The Mask:** multiple Personae require differentiated Relationship and
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Reflected-Self models per counterpart.
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- **TE-09 Unrecognized Intelligence:** co-adaptation may not start until intentional
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recognition begins; systemic individuality can precede social modeling.
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