# Computational Citizenship **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Citizenship / Post-Biological Personhood **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Future constitutional concept ## Definition **Computational Citizenship** is political membership and legally enforceable status for a person whose continuing agency or identity is instantiated primarily in computational infrastructure. ## Continuity Significance It would connect recognition to service, jurisdiction, political membership, portability, and public obligations. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence No current state offers citizenship to a computational person as such. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Corporate legal personality, e-residency, and digital identity are not computational citizenship. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Continuity Citizenship|Continuity Citizenship]] · [[wiki/Substrate-Neutral Citizenship|Substrate-Neutral Citizenship]] · [[wiki/Birthright Continuity|Birthright Continuity]] · [[wiki/Computational Naturalization|Computational Naturalization]] · [[wiki/Continuity Utility|Continuity Utility]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE --> ## Deep-Time Continuity Interface This node is audited through [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] for future control-surface conversion, ontological drift, succession, irreversibility, due process, and resource incidence. The backlink records analytical relevance; it does not establish continuity intent in the present rule or institution. <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE --> ## Relationships - **Edge source route:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] connects this topic to exact Annual Question passages promoted into the Simple Reminders archive. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “It is not too early to construct Turing Test 2.0 tests of 'human citizenship' that attempt to capture the full complexity of the sorts of beings that we would have live among us as equals.” > **— Steve Fuller**, *2014, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT?”* [[reminders/Personhood/Citizenship Needs a Turing Test for Beings We Live Among by Steve Fuller|Citizenship Needs a Turing Test for Beings We Live Among by Steve Fuller]] > “A good place to start would be with a sympathetic rendering of long-standing—and too easily dismissed—'anthropomorphic' attributions to animals and machines. Welfare State 2.0 policies could be then designed to enable a wide assortment of candidate beings—from carbon to silicon—to meet the requisite standard of citizenship implied in such attributions.” > **— Steve Fuller**, *2014, Edge Annual Question: “WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT?”* [[reminders/Personhood/From Carbon to Silicon Every Candidate Being Needs a Standard by Steve Fuller|From Carbon to Silicon Every Candidate Being Needs a Standard by Steve Fuller]]