our health safety and welfare the welfare of all people and apropos of that how does corporate personhood factor into the issues you talk about in this film. well in many cases they argue that they have the right to free speech i think there's recently trending on some social media that someone speaking out about tainted water is being sued by a fracking company because they can't talk about it saying and then you know the person is saying it's violating their rights to free speech or expression and it's not just corporate personhood it's several laws and it's some of these laws date back to the founding of this country you know tom lindsey who founded cell gaffer runs cell def basically says you know we have a latticework of laws that support corporate activity because that's what we wanted to do we wanted to as a country grow and exploit the natural resources before i spent an hour and twenty seventeen and we're reaching the limits of resources there is climate change is a lot of challenges again like corporate activities pushing up against local communities so we have to take a look at

that they address here are things like reforming the campaign finance laws to take away corporate personhood for the purposes of political speech they want to require all people to get you poor pay for equal work and also to require the federal government to allocate funding to states based on how much those states pay in federal taxes and that's in addition to many other things on a social scale that california maybe doesn't necessarily agree with the federal government on wednesday ok well how likely is this constitutional convention to happen they must they've got to lawyer up on this to get this to happen right. well this is actually very likely to happen it's just a matter of time and that's because so far at least twenty seven states out of the thirty four necessary to call for a national constitutional convention are supporting this however i do want to mention that between seven hundred eighty seven and two thousand and fourteen over eleven thousand proposed amendments have been submitted but only thirty three of those have ever been approved by congress and submitted to states for r

mirrors several progression over o time of eve luges does a fish say have a rudimentary or toling of personhood to connect that a little bit with a essay that you have somewhat later had is a really pass mating essay about the internet. in which you wonder there's a sentence called met gain and it's about how internet may be changing the way we think and here's your sentence unplanned worldwide unification that the world is achieving mirrors the evolution of the nervous system in multicellar animal and you sate cloud is superhuman interstellar traveler whose nervous system communicate with each other by radio orders of magnitude faster than our puttering nerve impulses. but in what sense is the cloud to be seens a single individual rather than a society? >> i should interject there that this cloud that you're talking about is from science fiction. it's science fiction book by fred who is, it was a great astronomer and -- he has a lot of science fiction much of it not very good but first science fiction -- [laughter] first science fiction book is extremely good. it is called the black cloud. and

anonymous, not just because we do not know her name but also because slavery cut out her name and personhood. enters history with a strong undeniable voice. and that was also what phillis did more than a century later. led by john winthrop, the purity t puritans soon realized if they were going to dominate the land and extract wealth from it, they needed a laboring army they could force to their will and word. to achieve this, they negotiated and created in 1641 a set of laws governing their behavior. called the body of liberties. which stipulated they could take away the liberties of others, including wayward women, whose purpose it was to enrich them and theirs into eternity. the first laws to secure slavery in what became the united states were passed not in the south but in the commonwealth of massachusetts. the transatlantic slave trade provided the wealth basis for the earth early commonwealth. it supported a life of culture, expansion, learning and prosperity. all backed by religious and biblical belief. which allowed for a life of ease and plenty. the wealth, leisure and educational

i am not making this about the personhood of barack obama, i am making this about white supremacy ins country. that laid the groroundwork for e election of someone who ran, basically, on a hazel agenda. and the hateful remarks, the rhetoric that this president speaks and tweets has created an environment where those who hate have permission to be safe in public spaces. the thing that troubles me the most about my encounters this i amnd was the fact -- from birmingham, alabama. i was raised there. i have seen klan rallies before. the last klan rally i witnessed in person, i was five years old standing on a sidewalk watching the klan rally go down the main street of birmingham, alabama, in the city. i don't remember my fear. i remember my puzzlement in that moment. and and blazon in my memory are those who did she that they wore they a w sheets that some road horses, carried flagsore mccarrick crosses. what sticks out for me is we are in a country and in a time where i witness masses of white supremacists walking down the main streets of charlottesville, virginia, emboldened enough to

government right now but in terms of economics they want to see things like limiting corporate personhood for campaign finance and political speech purses they also want to require all people to receive equal pay for equal work and of course they want to change how the federal government allocates funding to states so that would be based on individual states tax federal tax. how much they pay in federal taxes so that's something that california pays more in and doesn't see as much return in natasha c. and pretty to how likely is a constitutional convention to happen. so right now it's actually fairly likely however it could still be a little bit of time and that's because at least twenty seven states have now supported a national constitutional convention and that's twenty seven out of the thirty four that would be required to put this forward on a national level so it's something that these initiative proposers say they think will happen soon but i do want to mention it's very very hard to change the constitution and in fact since seven hundred eighty seven over eleven thousand proposals

personhood is incommunicable.o this objection, the savvy trans- humanist would likely respond sure, but our newer at hand purposes, that method doesn't really matter. we can do some pretty amazing things and for the more far out dreams, we don't have to be dualist who believe the mind can be transferred, we can merely be functionalists. since science fiction has done so much to shift the popular imagination, creating a widespread exception that dreams will be possible, may be desirable, could be inevitable, i want to spend my remaining time discussing a novel that critically touches on some of these topics. now. much of the fiction makes it difficult to find how we live well together if they were to become reality anytime soon. movies like the matrix are a blast but they are distant from her everyday concerns. they do a good job of describing what it might look like. the novel is called feed. from my own research and e-mail exchange, i gather that since publication in 2002 it has been assigned in schools fairly re

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