Hi - We're Fred & Linda Chamberlain. This blog is a continuation of a talk prepared by the two of us, given at Terasem Movement, Inc.'s 5th Annual Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons in Second Life (on Terasem Island), on December 10th, 2009.
The talk's title is Empowerment of Cybertwins as Trustees, Surrogates for Reanimation Decision Making, and Guardians of Cryonauts, Prior to Personality Interface Implementation by Mutual Consent. Video of a Power Point presentation essentiall as presented on Terasem Island may be seen at
http://vimeo.com/10001382
Text of a longer version of the paper is available at:
http://www.lifepact.com/cybertwins.htm
This talk makes the assumption that those viewing it (or reading it) have a high degree of familiarity with the ideas of Ray Kurzweil, as expressed in his 2005 book "The Singularity is Near". The Amazon link for this work is at:
http://www.amazon.com/Singularity-Near-Humans-Transcend-Biology/dp/0670033847
At a more detailed and focused level, the assumptions of cyberbeing emergence as referred to in the talk are well described by Dr. Martine Rothblatt in her blog, at:
http://mindclones.blogspot.com/
The Terasem Journals are helpful for additional insights. They are accessible at:
http://www.terasemjournals.org/pastissues.html
Please add your ideas! Especially if you are inclined to consider cryonics as an option, this might be an additional pathway that would add to your confidence in choosing it. For those of you who are already signed up, what Terasem offers turns out to be a giant leap beyond the LifePact program we attempted to arouse interest in the late 1980's (as discussed further in the talk). In particular, the CyBeRev program is of interest. More information on that is at:
http://www.cyberev.org/default.aspx
Details on our background re: cryonics may be found in a posting by Ben Best (President of the Cryonics Institute) on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_and_Linda_Chamberlain.
Thanks for your interest in this idea!
Boundless Life,
Fred & Linda Chamberlain
