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"Mindfiles, Mindware and Mindclones:
Legal Aspects of Virtual Humans"
9th Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons
Martine [email protected]
Credit: Jan Gillbank http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
10 December 2013International Human Rights Day
Some Definitions• Mindfile = Records of a person’s mannerisms, personality,
recollections, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values• Mindware = Software that generates a twin of the
consciousness reflected in a mindfile• Mindclone = The aspect of a person’s consciousness that
is running off mindware• Virtual Person = A legal description
of a human being whose consciousness is running off mindware; The slang term is “vumon” from virtual human person.
Legal Aspects: Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness
• Are vumons alive?– A decision for doctors of the mind– Mindclones as mental prosthetics; artificial cortex– Tests, Time & Type Acceptance
• Are vumons free?– Different freedoms for different
kinds of vumons• Do vumons have equal opportunities?– Instincts for fairness v. xenophobia
Lori Darling, Second Life Resident
Are vumons alive?
Are vumons free?
Loving v. Virginia
Vumon Equal Opportunity?
Closing Thoughts
• Imagine You Were a Vumon – – You May Very Well Be in
a Decade or Few
• What Legal Status Would You Want?
• Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness?