I think a corporation is as much a person as Voltron is a person.
A person’s constitute components don’t have higher-levels of consciousness, but a person does. Whereas for a corporation, the situation is reversed—the constituent components have higher-level consciousness, but the corporation does not by itself.
I agree with the premise that a corporation then is some kind of slave, or thrall, at the command a committee of wizards. So, a zombie in some sense.
Another similarity to note is that the will and nature of a corporation changes depending on its most influential constituent components, which is similar in nature to how a human person might change due to a disease or different mental state.
If we stick with the lens of mythology, where a collective will is embodied by something which controls it, then yes.
We can say some things are more like golems, while others are more like thralls. I think religions are more like golems because a collective will is distilled into a “singular” scripture, and many times the logos is esoteric in nature, but its “magic” gets the job done, that is to say, you don’t need to understand your religion to be religious.
Should we broadly categorize embodiments of collective will as such? Not necessarily—I think democratic institutions are less prone to be slavish, but more like a person with schizophrenia managing themselves. I think the closer an entity gets to a human person-level of embodiment, the more likely it is to be pro-social.
A person’s constitute components don’t have higher-levels of consciousness, but a person does. Whereas for a corporation, the situation is reversed—the constituent components have higher-level consciousness, but the corporation does not by itself.
I agree with the premise that a corporation then is some kind of slave, or thrall, at the command a committee of wizards. So, a zombie in some sense.
Another similarity to note is that the will and nature of a corporation changes depending on its most influential constituent components, which is similar in nature to how a human person might change due to a disease or different mental state.