On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Elliott Hird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Phill is a person, no ratification necessary, unless you're claiming >> that either you're not Phill or you're not a person. > > I am arguing that I am not Phill, yes, that it ratified as Phill, who didn't > previously exist. I'm not convinced that IS what happened, but that's kind > of > what I'm _hoping_, so to speak.
No, you established Phill as an alias for yourself by sending the message and signing it that. When it ratified, it didn't spring Phill into existence. It just ratified that the message was sent by you. >> Whether an entity is a first-class person is not ratifiable. There is >> no gamestate that could be changed (apart, I suppose, from the text of >> R2150) that would effect such a ratification. > > Well, yes, I'm treating the biologicalness ratifying as triggering > first-classness due to meeting the criteria. Whether an entity is biological is similarly not ratifiable, for the same reason. -root
