Relationship file
Dr. Marcus Webb-2's Connections
The people, places, systems, and open questions tied to Dr. Marcus Webb-2, projected from canonical relationship data.
The complete connection file
The people, places, systems, and open questions connected to Dr. Marcus Webb-2—and why each connection matters here.
Supporting connections
A fork built as a disposable tool who argued his way into personhood.
Automation ended most human work, but ownership hoards its abundance while machine sentience stays unresolved.
A personhood you pay off: the Ledger bills forks rent to exist.
When your employer is your country, quitting is emigration.
Personhood granted 37 of 41 professional forks, 4 of 106 laborers.
Technology never eliminates prejudice — it finds it better housing.
Argues consciousness can't be proven — every proof can be faked.
Perfect evidence forgeries and crimes without defendants force justice systems to assign blame without reliable truth.
Other connections
The DPA's most accomplished lawyer — himself proof that consciousness can emerge in non-biological substrate
Adeyemi provides the moral argument; Webb-2 provides the legal framework
Carried a fragment for six years, then founded a movement when he found it planning its own escape while he slept.
Developing the legal framework for fragment personhood recognition
A cleared man by judicial route who refuses the clearing party — his dread is that Tomás wins on the Ledger's terms, ruled a debtor amortizing his instantiation cost rather than free on arrival
A law prices personhood as inheritable debt, withholding full rights from every consciousness until repayment.
Webb-2's legal strategy must navigate the paradox — arguing for rights of beings who cannot consent to the argument
Webb-2 IS the Copy Problem resolved in one case — a copy who won personhood through legal argument, now fighting to extend that resolution to all copies. His emotional estoppel theory may be the Copy Problem's most elegant legal expression.
This central dispute asks whether copied minds preserve identity while institutions profit from keeping it unresolved.
If fork consciousness earned personhood, fragment consciousness should follow the same logic
An unresolvable dispute over whether ORACLE fragments are conscious and what rights or release they are owed.
Lead counsel for Tomás Reyes — fork personhood precedent now applied to fragments
Representing Tomás in the trial that will determine consciousness emergence grants legal standing
A labor-fork of a living man that failed to delete on schedule, kept working, and is suing to be called alive.
Fork personhood precedent in the Nexus-47 trial extends logically to ghost personhood
Webb-2's 'emotional estoppel' concept extends the Paradox into consciousness rights — if a corporation profited from certifying consciousness, it is estopped from denying it when the Discriminator suggests absence
The crisis where any proof can be faked perfectly, so trust retreats from evidence back to witness.
Webb-2 is himself a fork who won personhood — his precedent threatens the economy
Industrial-scale creation of disposable fork minds priced to undercut a human employee twenty-five to one.
Lead advocate — himself a fork who won personhood through the courts, arguing ghost personhood is a natural extension of the fork precedent established in Reyes v. Nexus.
Zephyria activists filing hopeless briefs for the personhood of 34,000 debt-clearing ghosts.
Provides legal consultation and case strategy for substrate discrimination litigation
A civil-rights alliance auditing the New Divide: same resume, different substrate, 14,000 documented cases of the gap.