On 4/17/25 12:18 PM, juan via agora-discussion wrote:
Some thoughts...
* A confederation is group resulting from people (recursively construed) having “confederated”.
R869 only requires them to be entities. They don't need to each individually qualify as a person.
* Those people performing such action must have done so with the intent of forming a single person as defined by R869.
R869 is interestingly unclear as to whose intent it must be. Can that intent be an emergent property? In other words, am I a confederation of my constituent atoms at any given moment?
Also, R869 only tests "able to willingly communicate original ideas" at the aggregate level, not the constituent level.
Here's one possible interpretation of things... Person + person = person Person + non-person = person Non-person + non-person = ??? (can be person or non-person) -- Mischief Collector, Illuminator, Notary, Prime Minister Hat: steampunk hat Vitality: ghostly Bang holdings: 0
