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Make up Your Mind:  The Legal Identity of Transbemans With More Than One Presence

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.

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Make up Your Mind:  The Legal Identity of Transbemans With More Than One Presence

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  1. Make up Your Mind:  The Legal Identity ofTransbemans With More Than One Presence Martine Rothblatt 4th Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons

  2. Whatsa Transbeman? A Human Without DNA A Being That Wants Human Rights A Beman Who Transitioned From Human martine4@gmail.com

  3. For Example martine4@gmail.com

  4. Or More Realistically Asimo With a Conscience martine4@gmail.com

  5. Or Just Asimo's Software With a Conscience Distributed Across The Web martine4@gmail.com

  6. Keeping it Straight Sex Human Transbeman Transgender martine4@gmail.com

  7. Its About Being a Being And Being Proud of it martine4@gmail.com

  8. It's About Substrate Being Irrelevant martine4@gmail.com

  9. Who Are We When We Are a Spreading Pattern And Not a Fixed Body? martine4@gmail.com

  10. Who Am I After Ten Copies of My Mind? martine4@gmail.com

  11. 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) martine4@gmail.com

  12. 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 martine4@gmail.com

  13. 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 martine4@gmail.com

  14. Since We Let Humans Birth New Flesh Minds… Why not also let them birth new non-flesh minds? martine4@gmail.com

  15. A Mind is a • Being • Soul • Person • Human • Transbeman martine4@gmail.com

  16. Every Mind Is • A Mixture of Other Minds • Not Wholly Independent • Not of Purely Free Will • In Constant Synchronization With Friends and Family martine4@gmail.com

  17. 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: martine4@gmail.com

  18. 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.” martine4@gmail.com

  19. 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 martine4@gmail.com

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