Journal Archives
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Featured Articles:
How Neuronanotechnology Will Lead to Melding of Mind and Machine
Ray Kurzweil
Upgrading Humans – Technical Realities and New Morals
Kevin Warwick
Vol. 6, Issue 1 (web)
The Ethics of Evolution, and the Evolution of Ethics
Dr. Walter Truett Anderson
In Our Post-Singularity Age
Jameson Dungan
Diagramming Sentences of Value: Evolving Human Rights and the Terms of Geoethical Nanotechnology
Dr. Wrye Sententia
Vol. 5, Issue 1 (web)
Geoethics for Cryonic Revival Nanotech & BioNano Sleeves
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
Cognitive Nanotechnology and Life Extension
Thomas F. Carney
Vol. 4, Issue 2 (web)
Recombinant DNA and Self-replicating Molecular Manufacturing: Parallels and Lessons
Dr. James Lewis
Application of Asilomar Guidelines to Self-replicating Machines
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
Concerning the Near Future of Human Sciences
David R. Hegstad
Vol. 4, Issue 1 (web)
Productive Nanosystems as a Milestone Toward Geoethical Nanotechnology
Dr. James Lewis
Cryonic Enabling Technology and the Bioweapons Risk
Douglas Mulhall
Understanding and Applying the Theosophy of Octavia Butler’s Earthseed Toward Achieving Geoethical Nanotechnology
Allison M. Ward
Awaken the Universe - Introducing the Order of Cosmic Engineers
Philippe Van Nedervelde
Engineering Lung Tissue for Clinical Applications
Professor Dame Julia Polak
An Experiment to Test the Ability of Digitally-Stored Mindfiles to Regenerate the Consciousness from Which It Came
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
Nanotechnology and Life Sciences
Challa S. S. R. Kumar, Ph.D.
Imaging and Treatment of Cancer through Combinations of Nanoparticles and Hormones
Carola Leuschner, Ph.D.
How Neuronanotechnology Will Lead to Melding of Mind and Machine
Ray Kurzweil
Upgrading Humans - Technical Realities and New Morals
Kevin Warwick
Perception Shifting in Neurosociety: Ethical and Societal Implications
Zack Lynch
The Geoethics of Self-Replicating Biomedical Nanotechnology for Cryonic Revival
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
Neuronanotechnology to Cure Criminality and Mental Illness
Nancy Woolf, Ph.D.
Hybriduality and Geoethics
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
The Clinic Seed – Africa
Keith Henson
How Uploading Works
Marshall Brain
The Role of AGI in Cybernetic Immortality
Ben Goertzel, Ph.D.
The Ethics of Imagination: The Space Between Your Ears
Wrye Sententia, Ph.D.
Employing Geoethics to Avoid Negative Nanotechnology Scenarios in Developing Countries
Guido David Núñez-Mujica
Consciousness in Humans and Elsewhere
Barry S. Blumberg, Ph.D.
The Dynamics of C-termini of Microtubules in Dendrites: A Possible Clue for the Role of Neural Cytoskeleton in the Functioning of the Brain
Jack Tuszynski
Scope and Resolution in Neural Prosthetics and Special Concerns for the Emulation of a Whole Brain
Randal Koene
How We Can Manage Our Way Through the Intertwined Promise and Peril of Accelerating Change
Ray Kurzweil
Democratic Transhumanism
James Hughes, Ph.D.
The Risk/Benefit Yardsticks Were Just Moved Off the Field: How Technological Convergence Renders Current Risk Assessment Models Obsolete, and What to Do About It
Douglas Mulhall
Proactionary Nano-Policy: Managing Massive Decisions for Tiny Technologies
Max More, Ph.D.
Global Geoethical Implementation of Nanofactory Production: Multi-Stakeholder Engagement for Effective Policy and Administrative Structures
Mike Treder
Global Design for Geoethical Nanotechnology
Natasha Vita-More
Alternative Models for Managing Self-Replicating Nanotechnology
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
Astrobiology: What are the Characteristics of Life?
Barry S. Blumberg, Ph.D.
The Physics of Immortality, Threats to Terran Society, & Self-Replicating Nanotechnology, and an Exchange Between Frank Tipler and Ray Kurzweil Regarding Ways to Avoid an End to the Universe
Frank Tipler, Ph.D., and Ray Kurzweil, Ph.D.
Featured Articles:
Marvin Minsky on The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
Dr. Marvin Minsky
The Rights of Avatars
Dr. William Sims Bainbridge
Vol. 6, Issue 1 (web)
Empowerment of Cybertwins as Trustees, Surrogates for Reanimation Decision Making, and Guardians of Cryonauts, Prior to Personality Interface Implementation by Mutual Consent
Fred and Linda Chamberlain
Reasoning from the Unborn to the Undead: Cryonics and Exceptions to the Ascertainable Beneficiary Requirement in Trust Law
Igor Levenberg
Temporal Compression and Virtualities
Keevy McAlavy
Out of the Chinese Room, Into the Courtroom: Personhood, Rights, Duties and the Conscious Computer
Elizabeth McClellan
The Medico-Legal Need for a Cryonics-Friendly Autopsy
Loraine Rhodes
Vol. 5, Issue 1 (web)
Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong
Wendell Wallach
A Possible Perspective: The Conscience is a Matter of Time in Emergent Systems
Álvaro Hernando Ramírez Llinás
Palling Around: The Personhood Analysis List (PAL)
Dr. Wesley DuCharme
Vol. 4, Issue 2 (web)
Case Study: The Human Rights Travails of Prof. Steve Mann as a Partial Cyborg in 2008
Dr. Steve Mann
What Life Might Be
Martin O’Dea
The Legal Aspects of "Forever for All"
R. Michael Perry, Ph.D.
Vol. 4, Issue 1 (web)
Arguments Supporting the Legal Rights of People in and Revived from Biostasis
John P. Dedon, Esq.
Cryo–Documentation: Vital Statistics
Loraine J. Rhodes, CLA
Pros and Cons of Corporate Personhood for Transbemans
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
Vol. 3, Issue 3 (web)
Concepts of Privacy in a Posthuman Age
Dr. Sebastian Sethe
Marvin Minsky on The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
Dr. Marvin Minsky
Vol. 3, Issue 2 (web)
The Rights of Avatars
Dr. William Sims Bainbridge
A Proactive-Pragmatic Approach to the Legal Status of Cyberminds
Dr. Max More
Vol. 3, Issue 1 (web)
An Outline for the Legal Ontology of Personhood: The Transbeman Example
David Koepsell, J.D., Ph.D.
The Tao of Personhood: The Yin and Yang of the Property–Person Continuum
Professor Linda MacDonald–Glenn
United States v. AI
Susan Fonseca–Klein, J.D.
Vol. 2, Issue 4 (web)
A New Opportunity to Teach and Succeed
Jack Harney
Constitutional Personhood
Michael Rivard, Esq.
Vol. 2, Issue 3 (web)
Trajectories to the Heavens
Dr. William Sims Bainbridge
Past Imperfect: Ancient Legal Codes and Future Transbeman Law–Precedents, Problems & Paradoxes
Professor Sam N. Lehman–Wilzig
Why Transbemans in Biostasis are Alive
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
BINA48 Mock Trial: Judge's Decision
Professor Gene Natale
Vol. 2, Issue 2 (web)
Bina48 Mock Trial, Defendant’s Brief
Susan Fonseca–Klein, J.D.
Ethics for Machines
Dr. Josh Storrs–Hall
Uniform Laws – Determination of Death Act/Anatomical Gifts – Future Legislation
Peter Langrock
Vol. 2, Issue 1 (web)
Bina48 Mock Trial, Plaintiff's Brief
Will Rosellini, J.D.
Artificial Moral Agents (AMAs): Prospects and Approaches for Building Computer Systems and Robots Capable of Making Moral Decisions
Wendell Wallach
Artificial Intelligence as a Legal Person
David Calverley, Esq.
What it Might "Feel" Like to be Connected to Devices That Will Expand or Enhance Human Function With Cyber Abilities
Larry Cauller, Ph.D.
Vol. 1, Issue 4 (web)
All Together Now
George Dvorsky
Strategies for Personality Transfer
Dr. William Sims Bainbridge
On Genes, Bemes, and Conscious Things
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
Indirect Mind Uploading: Using AI to Avoid Staying Dead
Paul Almond
Vol. 1, Issue 3 (web)
Macro-Bushido: A Geoethical Consciousness for an Info-Cultural Age
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
BINA48 VS. EXABIT CORPORATION (Fla. MD 2005)
Martine Rothblatt, J.D. and Susan Fonseca-Klein, Esq.
Transhuman Parenthood
Sebastian Sethe
Creating a New Intelligent Species: Choices and Responsibilities for AI Designers
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Possible Legal Rights of Cryogenically Revived Persons
Christopher Sega, Esq.
BINA48 VS. EXABIT CORPORATION (Fla. MD 2005)
Martine Rothblatt, J.D. and Susan Fonseca-Klein, Esq.
Forms of Transhuman Persons and the Importance of Prior Resolution of Relevant Law
Dr. Martine Rothblatt
Functions of a Trust Protector During Biostasis and at the Time of Cryogenic Revival
John P. Dedon, Esq.
Implications of Adaptive Artificial Intelligence for Legal Rights and Obligations
Peter Voss
Ethics of Enhancing Animals, Specifically the Great Apes
Guido David Núñez-Mujica