States do not engage in this type of information processing consciously

States do not engage in this type of information processing consciously. A consciousness is not assumed for them—a state is not a person (see §11.00.11 and §11.00.08). Of course, a state, because it is a Being, will process information because it can. While it can (and it does) engage in any other type of information processing, these three specific processing operations are the natural (meaning of logical, see §01.00.18, therefore, in this case, what is ‘natural’ is not based on need, see §05.00.05) result of personal information creation for its citizens from the moment they are given names at their birth and thereafter. They are not the result of some conscious decision reached after what might be perceived as rational thinking by the state. A (or any) government’s decision to affect these three processing operations in any manner (for example, by giving specific names to specific individuals (e.g. to slaves), or by prohibiting the transmission of information by certain individuals to certain others) ought not be confused with the processing operations which are carried out anyway, automatically and in the background, by the information platform that is the state.

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