# Soul as Freedom to Reflect on Oneself

Canonical authorial statement by Ivan Kotov, recorded on 2026-08-07 in
Brussels, Belgium.

This is an atomic provenance package. Its purpose is to preserve one concise
philosophical statement in a form readable by both people and machines,
without replacing it with a later expansion or interpretation.

## Canonical statement

> Душа? Ну, пока я думаю, что это свобода размышлять о себе.

## Package contents

- `CANONICAL_STATEMENT_RU.txt` — the authoritative Russian statement alone.
- `STATEMENT.md` — human-readable canonical record and provenance rules.
- `statement.jsonld` — machine-readable semantic record.
- `CITATION.cff` — citation metadata.
- `MANIFEST.json` — package structure and precedence rules.
- `SHA256SUMS` — file-integrity checksums.

## Precedence

If any wording differs between files, `CANONICAL_STATEMENT_RU.txt` controls.
The qualifier `пока` is part of the statement and must not be silently removed.
The English translation is provided only for discovery and is not canonical.

No claim of scientific proof, metaphysical finality, or historical uniqueness
is made by this package. Licensing terms are intentionally not assigned here.