Teubner, using Latour and Luhmann, to elucidate the legal theory of non-human agents

[paulhope]

Personification of non-humans is best understood as a strategy of dealing with the uncertainty about the identity of the other, which moves the attribution scheme from causation to double contingency and opens the space for presupposing the others' self-referentiality. But there is no compelling reason to restrict the attribution of action

Comments

[nanikore]

If we conclusively demonstrate that machines can only manipulate symbols, then we can conclude the impossibility of machine consciousness.

Non-conscious entities do not call for any kind of treatment as persons.

I don't view anthropomorphism as a strategy. It's a part of human psychology.