@benhamill@witches.town Yeah, exactly, and sorta.. in both ways. That ties into a whole other complex part of it too, I believe that there can be non-human persons, and a lot of my philosophy and spirituality are founded on that.

But I ALSO think that when I'm saying 'An AI could be a person" or "That ecosystem is a person", I'm not using the same sense of 'person' that I'm using when I say I'm NOT one.

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@benhamill@witches.town To some extent we already have these different senses of the word anyway (see also corporations-as-legal-persons for another (hopefully unrelated) example).

So yeah, I guess in terms of partially or not, certainly there are senses in which I AM a person, and senses in which I am not?

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