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#1 Bruce Klein

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Posted 22 April 2005 - 05:24 PM


Nov 5, 2005 - ImmInst Atlanta Life Extension Conf.
http://www.imminst.org/conference

Individual Speaker Abstract & Discussion Forum:

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James J. Hughes, Ph.D.
Author of Citizen Cyborg and Sec. of the World Transhumanist Association - Neurological Remediation and the Shifting Boundaries of Death - ImmInst Chat

#2 jhughes

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Posted 29 April 2005 - 01:25 PM

The current definition of death, worked out twenty years ago to address
the technology of the respirator, is falling apart. The braindead will
soon be maintainable indefinitely on life support, and may even be
reanimated. Some suggest we dispense with "death" in favor of
individually determined treatment plans, while others are pushing for a
neocortical standard that would recognize permanent vegetative state as
death. Whether we move in either direction, this century will begin to
see a shift toward consciousness and personhood-centered ethics as a
means of dealing not only with brain death, but also with extra-uterine
feti, intelligent chimeras, human-machine cyborgs, and the other new
forms of life that we will create with technology. The status of these
life forms will be fought out between "transhumanists," advocates of
non-anthropocentric personhood and post-human technological
possibilities, and their opponents the "bioconservatives." But
technologies of neurological remediation will tip the debate to the
transhumanists, and their more tentative, probabilistic,
information-theoretic understanding of death, as the loss of
identity-critical information. The preservation of identity-critical
information, whether on an organic or inorganic platform, will be
considered continuity of legal personhood.

#3 Lazarus Long

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Posted 29 April 2005 - 01:38 PM

The preservation of identity-critical information, whether on an organic or inorganic platform, will be considered continuity of legal personhood.


So not only is this likely to play out as legal battles over who owns not only our individual genetic information but the mods made to them. Will genetic upgrades be licensed like software rather owned by the user for example?

But also who owns the neurological patten of the *Self* could deteriorate into the worst copyright argument of them all once we can upload ;))

Not to mention for how long and by what currency of exchange for this kind of information that may allow for the very worst form of indentured servitude of the form of our *selves*, even in a potentially inorganic electronic substrate (body). [lol]

In fact the very idea of ownership itself will likely be challenged again from this perspective.

Nice to hear from you again James [thumb]

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#4 Bruce Klein

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Posted 09 November 2005 - 08:46 PM

Dr. Hughes' power point presentation:

http://www.imminst.o...ence/Hughes.ppt




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