Corporate Personhood - Bryant McGill

# Corporate Personhood **Domain:** Law / Institutions / Personhood **Doc Type:** Canonical Legal Concept Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Corporate personhood** is the legal treatment of corporations as juridical persons for specified rights, duties and procedural capacities. It is not a declaration that corporations are conscious or biologically human. ## Evolutionary Nexus The Fairchildren lineage in [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] shows institutions descending, branching and inheriting practice while remaining distinct legal persons. ## Machine-Rights Context Corporate personhood proves that law can create nonhuman legal persons for functional reasons. It does not settle machine moral status. Legal personality, conscious subjecthood and institutional liability must remain separate categories. ## See Also [[wiki/Fairchildren|Fairchildren]], [[wiki/Rights|Rights]], [[wiki/Nonhuman Personhood|Nonhuman Personhood]], [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]] ## Relationships - **Collection route:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **Source context:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]. - **Inference provenance:** [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]]. ## Research Inferences  These entries translate the forward-looking register in [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]] into ordinary wiki prose. The tier labels apply to the inference, not automatically to every factual anchor inside it. The interpretive frame comes from [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]. Collection route: [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **INF-0287 — Plausible.** Existing legal vehicles already grant non-human entities the capacity to own property, contract, and sue, and a hosted mind could be wrapped in one immediately. The first legally operative digital person will probably be an LLC, because the tooling exists and the alternative requires legislation.  ## Research Inference Attractors  These are secondary semantic placements for the inference attractor network. Each statement keeps its original ID and tier; its canonical cluster page links back to every destination. Source register: [[research/Research Inferences|Research Inferences]]. Interpretive context: [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] and [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]]. Collection route: [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]]. - **INF-0286 — Unresolved.** No jurisdiction has defined the status of a running emulation, and the first determination will likely arrive through an ordinary dispute — a contract, an estate, a tax question — rather than through a rights case. Mundane procedural law will settle the question before constitutional law addresses it. - **Canonical cluster:** [[wiki/Continuity Governance|Continuity Governance]]