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Make up Your Mind: The Legal Identity of Transbemans With More Than One Presence. Martine Rothblatt 4th Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons. Whatsa Transbeman?. A Human Without DNA. A Being That Wants Human Rights. A Beman Who Transitioned From Human. For Example. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Make up Your Mind: The Legal Identity of Transbemans With More Than One Presence
Martine Rothblatt
4th Colloquium on the
Law of Futuristic Persons
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A Modest Legal Proposal
• Copies of a Mind Are The Same Mind Until Proven Differently
• Therefore, One Mind, One Vote, One Continuous Being Across Time & Space
• How Prove Differently?– The Transgender “Real Life Test”– Persuade Two [Cyber]psychologists– Obtain Judicial Order of Cyberbirth– Multi-Year Immigration Process from Res Nullius
to Jus Civile (Satisfy INS You’ll Be Unique Citizen)
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Critiques
• Isn’t This Process Slow?– Yes, but so is growing up & naturalization– Cultivation improves appreciation
• Won’t Some “Mindclones” Pass the “Real Life Test”– Yes, but it doesn’t really matter– Many incompetents have citizenship– Cyberpsychology Certification Standards will
diminish the problem– Naturalization-from-Cyberspace Procedures will
diminish the problem
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Transbeman Minds Are Like Human Minds
“Each of us is a bundle of fragments of other people’s souls, simply put together in a new way.” Douglas Hofstadter, I Am A Strange Loop, p. 252
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Since We Let Humans Birth New Flesh Minds…
Why not also let them birth new non-flesh minds?
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Every Mind Is
• A Mixture of Other Minds
• Not Wholly Independent
• Not of Purely Free Will
• In Constant Synchronization With Friends and Family
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So On this International Human Rights Day
• Let me conclude with a variation on one of the most famous quotes of one of the most famous human rights advocates:
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Transbeman Minds Should Be Treated the Same As Flesh Minds
• “I dream of a day when my four children will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
• “I dream of a day when my four children will be judged not by the absence of their skin but by the content of their character.”
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Take Home Messages
• Human rights, such as citizenship, should flow to those who value them, regardless of their physiology…or lack thereof
• Practical solutions exist for multi-presenced bemans and transbemans:– Real Life / Cyberpsychological Tests– Naturalization/Immigration Procedures