{"updated":"2026-11-07T02:06:55Z","content_md":"To [Personhood Research Group](https:\/\/ammdi.hyperphor.com\/Personhood-Research-Group)\n\n![[3bvmw1pqxz4svef7c3z9h104vh]]\n\n![[000pv95w7s35g0895txqefe15s]]\n\n![[50ss20ss1jv949rz41rbgz1cjx]]\n\n![[42wbeyysxxv5fcz5wf71xywnjd]]\n\n![[7dsxwph1bx6wevhhb4s030qb6w]]\n\n![[1mp46ah032jk5x0k6tj7g0s324]]\n\n![[1ywqbcjktab25v3n1rp2zanqvx]]","changelog":[{"version":1,"at":"2026-11-07T02:06:55Z","note":null}],"transclusions":[{"id":"3bvmw1pqxz4svef7c3z9h104vh","version":1},{"id":"000pv95w7s35g0895txqefe15s","version":1},{"id":"50ss20ss1jv949rz41rbgz1cjx","version":1},{"id":"42wbeyysxxv5fcz5wf71xywnjd","version":1},{"id":"7dsxwph1bx6wevhhb4s030qb6w","version":1},{"id":"1mp46ah032jk5x0k6tj7g0s324","version":1},{"id":"1ywqbcjktab25v3n1rp2zanqvx","version":1}],"created":"2026-11-07T02:06:55Z","page":"f\/57a23m00yarx91crzerpxmgfsc\/","content_hash":"sha256:d7761508001f8ba7dec1b72b6945419a44ec49b4ab7b5ad970dc41fbec3aab68","id":"57a23m00yarx91crzerpxmgfsc","kind":"thread","origin":"https:\/\/ammdi.hyperphor.com\/blyg\/","content_html":"<div><div><div class=\"blyg-title\"><span>To <a class=\"pagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/ammdi.hyperphor.com\/Personhood-Research-Group\">Personhood Research Group<\/a> <\/span><\/div><\/div><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"3bvmw1pqxz4svef7c3z9h104vh\" data-blyg-version=\"1\"><div>I take it as axiomatic that personhood is not some objective fact of the universe but a socially constructed category. Maybe the most important one, in that it constructing that category is synonymous with creating society \u2013 persons are the members of it.<\/div><\/blockquote><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"000pv95w7s35g0895txqefe15s\" data-blyg-version=\"1\"><div><span>This means that I am not that interested in definitions of personhood (except secondarily); I&apos;m more interested in <i>the processes that produce those definitions<\/i>. This is what Goffman&apos;s work is about, and its also a more protocolized view I would argue.<\/span><\/div><\/blockquote><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"50ss20ss1jv949rz41rbgz1cjx\" data-blyg-version=\"1\"><div><span>It&apos;s also what a lot of politics is about. The immigration debate, eg, is about what kind of people get to count as persons in US political culture. You especially see what Eric was talking about, defining it by what it is not. Declaring large categories of humans as non-persons is a foundational act of fascism. They even write books on the topic: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unhumans\" target=\"_blank\">Unhumans - Wikipedia<\/a>. Sorry to get political but I actually don&apos;t think you can discuss personhood without touching on that. Who counts as a person is the fundamental social and political question. It&apos;s not a fixed definition, it&apos;s a zone of contention.<\/span><\/div><\/blockquote><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"42wbeyysxxv5fcz5wf71xywnjd\" data-blyg-version=\"1\"><div><\/div><\/blockquote><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"7dsxwph1bx6wevhhb4s030qb6w\" data-blyg-version=\"1\"><div><\/div><\/blockquote><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"1mp46ah032jk5x0k6tj7g0s324\" data-blyg-version=\"1\"><div><\/div><\/blockquote><blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"1ywqbcjktab25v3n1rp2zanqvx\" data-blyg-version=\"1\"><div><\/div><\/blockquote><\/div>","version":1,"media":[],"blyg":"0.3"}