TERASEM MOVEMENT, INC.

12th ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM ON THE LAW OF FUTURISTIC PERSONS

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2017

7:00AM — 10:00AM PDT / 10:00AM — 1:00PM EDT / 3:00PM — 6:00PM GMT

ANALYSIS OF STATE LAWS ON THE REVERSAL OF LEGAL DETERMINATION OF DEATH

Terasem Island Conference Center in Second Life

[SLURL — click here to teleport to Terasem]

Talks and Speakers:

“Death Just Ain’t What It Used To Be”

Daniel Davies

Genetic Biodesign Systems Engineer

CEO and Founder at Vulpine Designs Limited

United Kingdom

(Avatar Name: Danfox Davies)

“Protecting Your Digital Assets: A Walk Through

the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act”

Lori Rhodes

Director of Legal Research, Terasem Movement, Inc.

Space Coast, FL

(Avatar Name: Lori Darling)

“Immigration from Cyberspace”

Martine Rothblatt, J.D., PhD

Cofounder & Executive Vice-President

Terasem Movement, Inc.

Space Coast, FL

(Avatar Name: Vitology Destiny)

Each year on December 10th, International Human Rights Day, Terasem conducts a Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons. The event seeks to provide the public with informed perspectives regarding the legal rights and obligations of “futuristic persons” via VR events with expert presentations and discussions. Terasem hopes to facilitate development of

“a body of law covering the rights and obligations of entities that transcend, and yet encompass, conventional conceptions of humanness.”

It’s more and more evident that humanity and technology will co-evolve, with organic life enhanced by synthetic biology and artificial intelligence, and artificial life powered by mind grafts from human uploads, blending more and more until it will be impossible — and pointless — to tell which is which. The first generations of futuristic persons — sentient Artificial Intelligences (AIs), human mind uploads, and hybrids — are coming, and it’s important to prepare the way.

Current-generation virtual worlds like Second Life are, of course, very primitive compared with the future virtual worlds where many futuristic persons will live. Next-generation platforms like Philip Rosedales High Fidelity and Linden Lab’s Project Sansar support immersive Virtual Reality (VR) headsets and interfaces, which is likely to trigger a new, massive wave of interest in virtual worlds. Come to the 2017 Colloquium in Second Life, and get ready for future Terasem events in next-generation virtual worlds.

You are invited! I look forward to seeing you in Second Life on Sunday, December 10, and I am available for live help. My Second Life avatar name is Eschatoon Magic.

Image from Terasem.