Make up Your Mind: The Legal Identity of Transbemans With

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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?

2008-12-10 martine4@gmail.com

Keeping it Straight Sex

Transgender Human Transbeman

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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

Jus Civile

(Satisfy INS You’ll Be Unique Citizen) 2008-12-10 martine4@gmail.com

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 2008-12-10 martine4@gmail.com

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 2008-12-10 martine4@gmail.com

Since We Let Humans Birth New Flesh Minds…

Why not also let them birth new non-flesh minds?

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• Being • Soul • Person • Human • Transbeman A Mind is a 2008-12-10 martine4@gmail.com

Every Mind Is • A Mixture of Other Minds • Not Wholly Independent • Not of Purely Free Will • In Constant Synchronization With Friends and Family 2008-12-10 martine4@gmail.com

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: 2008-12-10 martine4@gmail.com

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.” 2008-12-10 martine4@gmail.com

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 2008-12-10 martine4@gmail.com