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Terasem Conference On Law Of Transhuman Persons
This past weekend, the Terasem Movement, a not-for-profit charity endowed for the purpose of educating the public on the practicality and necessity of greatly extending human life, hosted a colloquium on the law regarding transhuman persons. The conference took place at Indialantic, Florida
The stated purposes of the meeting were to
The legal status of persons who are stored by other means is explored in novels like Richard Morgan's 2003 book Altered Carbon; everything that makes you a "person" can be stored and then loaded into a new body - or an artificial sleeve.
Read more at the First Annual Colloquium on the Law of Transhuman Persons.
Presentations on a variety of science-fictional topics were made:
This conference works on the issues raised in many science fiction works. The issue of whether or not a cryonically frozen person can inherit (and what they will end up with if they do) is covered in a variety of science fiction works. In his 1976 novel A World Out Of Time, Larry Niven popularizes the term corpsicle and describes the fate of a cryonically frozen person centuries later. Another of my favorites, Roger Zelazny's 1976 novel Doorways in the Sand, the main character's frozen uncle makes an unexpected reappearance.
Martine Rothblatt, Terasem Movement, Inc., Melbourne Beach, FL
Sebastian Sethe, Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics, University of Sheffield, UK
John Dedon, Esq., Partner, Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, PC, Fairfax, VA
Christopher Sega, Esq., Venable LLP, Washington, DC
Eliezer Yudkowsky, Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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