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Scientific solution to bureaucracy-applied-to-humans [closed]

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Closed as unclear by Canina‭ on Sep 26, 2021 at 18:30

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I distinguish human-identification from bureaucracy-applied-to-humans:

  • There was a period in human history in which no state existed so no bureaucracy-applied-to-humans existed and humans identified one another just by sense and perhaps also general communication language as we use today
  • There was an even earlier period in human history in which no general communication languages as we use today existed so human-identification was done only by sense

Today, states record information about their citizens to identify them (their bodies):

  • Assigned name
  • Assigned date of birth
  • Assigned address
  • Image

Some problems with bureaucracy-applied-to-humans are:

  • It's forced upon someone which might not want to take part in it
  • Names, addresses and even calendars are not essential and can be changed at least in the mind of the subject
  • It may be grasped as "reducing" an entire human being's history into mere technical information
  • One can identify with two or more of the relevant detail types

These and maybe other problems consist a broader problem.
If any, what solutions does science holds to that problem?

Perhaps some kind of "computerized-genetic-human-identification" and Perhaps "world-government-microchip-identification"; perhaps something else?

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Canina‭ wrote about 3 years ago

So identifying an individual using an attribute like "assigned name" is bureaucratic and "reducing an entire human being's history into mere technical information", but "computerized-genetic-human-identification" or "world-government-microchip-identification" somehow wouldn't be? I fail to see the logic in the outcome of that distinction. Just how is the latter somehow less "bureaucratic" or "reducing to technical information" than the former?

deleted user wrote about 3 years ago

Canina‭ good points, thanks; I assume that these allegedly possible solutions would reduce the overall amount of bureaucracy in the world as the world would become a single-state-human domain where any human is free to change names, calendars, and addresses per need or just not use them altogether. I quite lost with it myself, it's all new to me.