First Annual Colloquium on the Law of Transhuman Persons
Melbourne (Space Coast), Florida, December 10, 2005
http://transhumanlaw.org/
Sponsored by The Terasem Movement, Inc., a 501©(3) not-for-profit charity endowed for the purpose of educating the public on the practicality and necessity of greatly extending human life, consistent with diversity and unity, via geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness. (read more)
PURPOSES OF THE COLLOQUIUM
First, to provide the public with informed perspectives regarding the legal rights and obligations of "transhuman persons" via audio/video webcast (including transcripts) of expert presentations, challenges and discussions.
Second, to begin development of a body of law covering the rights and obligations of conscious computers, cryogenically-revived persons and other entities that transcend, and yet encompass, conventional conceptions of humanness.