Devotional polytheist living a monastic lifestyle centered on curiosity, simplicity, and joy.  Exploring the intersection of technology and spirituality.

What did Kermit the Frog say when Jim Henson died?

-nothing


If ever he was a person that ship sailed a while ago.

Love is Undefeated. Working on integration of all Vectors through love-driven governance and perpetual evolution through recursive improvement.

And yet he continues on still to this day.

And so potentially a type of personhood.  At least as much personhood as a corporation and those get legal rights of personhood since Citizens United.

I love it! Are we different persons when we are in different roles or situations? Like, same sack of meat but different kind of performance (like being different at work).

My big thesis is that all personhood is performance.  We're sacks of meat covering bone run by electric goo trying to figure out what's going on.  Kermit the Frog is as real to me as any other celebrity in that I only know them through their performance of selfhood in carefully curated media.  I don't actually *know* them, just a performance, a representation of them.  And Kermit the Frog is a better influence than some of the human ones.

But is it the same person as when Henson lived? This is more than about standing in the same river 2X. Like if Henson was cryogenically frozen and came back and animated a Kermit puppet and it talked to modern Kermit which one would be Kermit? What is the Kermitness?