# Personhood Allocation **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Legal Theory / Status **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis grounded in legal personhood doctrine ## Definition **Personhood Allocation** is the legal process by which rights, duties, standing, dignity interests, property limits, and recognition are assigned to an entity or class. ## Continuity Significance It prevents the misleading idea that law merely discovers personhood; law often allocates different bundles for different purposes. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Natural persons, corporations, embryos, estates, animals, natural entities, ships, and other legal objects demonstrate varied status techniques. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Legal allocation and moral status are related but not identical. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Epipersonhood|Epipersonhood]] · [[wiki/Asymmetrical Personhood|Asymmetrical Personhood]] · [[wiki/Rights-Bearing Computational Subject|Rights-Bearing Computational Subject]] · [[wiki/Legal Personality|Legal Personality]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "What do I think about machines that think? Well, of course it depends on who that person is." > **— Robert Sapolsky**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Machine Succession/It Depends on Who the Thinking Machine Is by Robert Sapolsky|It Depends on Who the Thinking Machine Is by Robert Sapolsky]] > “What future progressive norms would most forward-thinking people today dismiss as too transgressive?” > **— Kate Darling**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* [[reminders/Personhood/Which Future Moral Norms Seem Transgressive Today by Kate Darling|Which Future Moral Norms Seem Transgressive Today by Kate Darling]] ## Relationships - **Edge source and reminder relationship:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] records the original Edge Annual Question responses; the source-checked quotations below route to their individual reminders and back to this topic.