Right, which came on the tail end of the argument about anti-vaxers' claims of 
bodily sovereignty. Part of Kim's argument *for* the vaccine mandates is that 
one's self doesn't really stop at one's skin. We're permeable to, participants 
in, the molecular/organismal stew in which we swim. In this context, bodily 
sovereignty is clearly bogus. Sure, back before the industrial revolution the 
concept of person/entity autonomy carried some water. But in an age where we 
get everything from our body dysmorphia from TikTok to our meat shrink-wrapped 
and shipped from some fly over state, bodily sovereignty is nonsense.

But in their defense, these membranes are not permeable to *everything*. My 
attempt to bridge the gap between Jon's argument and Kim's was presaged by my 
discussion of "free will" with EricC. Pragmatically, even if we *know* some 
diseased mind like Ted Kaczynski isn't autonomously responsible for his 
behavior, we still toss that psycho in jail, delineating him from his 
environment by way of his skin. I suppose analogous to quantum decoherence, 
given a particular context, it's within epsilon accurate to treat him as an 
atomic object. (Not Schroedinger's Meme, here but a kind of uncertainty 
principle. You either know what the meme is about or you know where the meme 
resides. But you can't know both?)

So, bodily sovereignty works in some contexts and fails in others. Disagreement 
dissolved. Quaff your pint and relax. 8^D

But I agree with Marcus. Unless we can get autonomy and panmixia to elegantly 
*fall out* of a unified construct, it'll remain a buzzword bandied about by 
hucksters and the delusional. This is yet another reason the Stadler paper on 
the ... mechanisticality (mechanisticness?) of integer hyperflows triggered me. 
These threads also evoke the conversation Jon tried to have about 
zero-knowledge proofs. It seems like ZKPs (perhaps including tech like 
homomorphic encryption) hint at a more elegant construct for demonstrating 
one's authenticity while preserving one's place on a spectrum between autonomy 
or panmixia.

On 10/18/21 10:43 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> At VFriam with Glen and Jon.  as I came into their discussion on identity, I 
> brought up Self-Sovereignty Identity as something we're designing for in our 
> day job with Realtime.Earth.
> 
> If we classify Web 1.0 (1993-2005) roughly simple pages with databases and 
> forms. Web 2.0 (~2005-2015) was an era of social media, user-generated 
> content and mobile. In the Web 3.0 (~2015-present)  buzzword space, 
> self-sovereign identity is one of three primary components:
> 
>  1. Geospatial: AR, VR, digital twin, and physically interacting in the world
>  2. Decentralization: blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFT, Acequia
>  3. *Self-Sovereign Identity:* web 2.0 identity was dominated by Google, 
> Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Verizon, Government (if in China not USA- we can't 
> even manage a vote with government identity) 
>      1.  Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity>
>      2. image.png
>         https://www.powells.com/book/-9781617296598/2-0 
> <https://www.powells.com/book/-9781617296598/2-0>
>      3. Sandy Pentland's New Economy: Data as Capital
>         https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/building-new-economy 
> <https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/building-new-economy>
>         https://youtu.be/Jgg2N1Tnnw8 <https://youtu.be/Jgg2N1Tnnw8>


> 
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 11:21 AM uǝlƃ ☤>$ <geprope...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 
>     The Diverse Meanings of Digital Sovereignty
>     
> https://globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/08/05/the-diverse-meanings-of-digital-sovereignty/
>  
> <https://globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/08/05/the-diverse-meanings-of-digital-sovereignty/>
> 
>     "
>     1) Cyberspace sovereignty
>     2) State Digital Sovereignty
>     3) Indigenous digital sovereignty
>     4) Social movements digital sovereignty
>     5) 'Personal' digital sovereignty
>     "
> 
>     Oh how I hate that word "digital".


-- 
"Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie."
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