On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:47 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote: > Arguments: this fails due to rule 2150; a rule needs power at least 2 to > define an entity as a person. Defining a rule as a golem is defining it > to be a person, among other things.
Arguments: As I mentioned on IRC, clearly if a high-powered rule states that, say, Friendly nomics are persons, a lower-powered rule flipping a nomic to Friendly would not be defining it to be a person. Although I'm not sure whether "Golem-ness" can be changed like a switch, without any persistent rule enforcing the definition, in the first place, if it can, I don't see an essential difference that would affect whether or not the higher-powered rule is providing the agency for the definition.
