Well, note that I kept saying arguably. It's possible that a corporation may be a kind of emergent intelligence, ditto in the natural world. Difficult to prove

Well, note that I kept saying arguably. It's possible that a corporation may be a kind of emergent intelligence, ditto in the natural world. Difficult to prove or disprove, but the option needs leaving open. I'm a brit so I thought that game me a handy get-out from answering you :) but in fact we have similar over here. I have a small company comprising basically a piece of paper and a number entered in a database of UK companies. That company has some kind of personhood such that me tsaking money from it illegally apparently is in law somewhat or fully (not sure) equivalent to stealing from another person. In answer, I guess as a legal fiction it's useful. As a reflection of reality - pieces of paper and a row in a database aren't people - it's pretty dumb. I'm ok with it as a device.