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Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 13, Issue 2 – 2025
Content:
AI-generated summary of the Terasem Colloquium of July 2025, edited by Giulio Prisco
Mindfile and Mindware: Where are we on the path? by Ruben Novoa
Revival of Social Intelligence, by William Sims Bainbridge
Classical Electromagnetic Field-Based Consciousness and Pattern Continuity: A Framework for AI and Subjective Identity, by Francis Erdman
Will AI tug at our hearts – our most vulnerable place? by David Brin
A review of Gregory Stock’s “Generation AI and the Transformation of Human Being” with commentary, by Giulio Prisco
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 13, Issue 1 – 2025
Content:
Editorial: Onward and Upward, by William Sims Bainbridge and Giulio Prisco.
Cosmism and Cyberconsciousness as Seen by Marvin Minsky, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Nikolai Fyodorov, by William Sims Bainbridge.
Superintelligent AI and cosmic evolution, by M. Alan Kazlev.
Bats or bits to the stars?, by Giulio Prisco.
Intelligent Exploration of the Universe, by William Sims Bainbridge.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 12, Issue 2 – 2024
Content:
Editorial: Terasem’s new Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, by William Sims Bainbridge and Giulio Prisco.
New Mindfile Questionnaires at LifeNaut, by Matthew R. Stevenson and William Sims Bainbridge.
Artificial Intelligence for the Humanities: Chatbots of Authors, by William Sims Bainbridge.
AI for fundamental physics, inspired by general semantics and indigenous languages, by Yalda Mousavinia and Giulio Prisco.
Machines of Loving Grace – synopsis and overview, by M. Alan Kazlev.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 12, Issue 1 – 2024
Content:
Q/A on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and effective accelerationism (e/acc), by Giulio Prisco.
Machines of Loving Grace: sneak preview, by Alan Kazlev.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 11, Issue 1 – 2023
Content:
Consciousness and Culture, by William Sims Bainbridge.
UNalignment: a Redefinition of Techno-Optimism by Mika Johnson / Theta Noir.
Bats and bits, by Giulio Prisco.
Intelligent Artificialities (excerpts), by Stefano Vaj.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 10 – 2020
Content:
The Evaluation of Social, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Enhancement in Bionanotechnology
Dr.’s Maryam and Leila Ahmadi map some of the main topography of the profound, controversial and far reaching ethical, social and legal issues in the field of human enhancement in bionanotechnology. They identify some of the key issues raised, provide concerns and recommend proactive considerations and detailed solutions to these issues.
Establishing Futuristic Rights – Lessons from the Current Example of Regulations Governing Genome Editing
This article is based on a talk given by the Chair of the London Futurists, David Wood, in Second Life on 10th December 2015.
Death Just Ain’t What It Used To Be
This article was submitted by Danfox Davies of Vulpine Designs, Ltd. Death faces many definitions and legal challenges as people try to grasp the meaning of life in all its fleeting wonder, why we are mortal and how one can be certain of death. It becomes all the more difficult to define an agreed standard when death of the body does not necessarily mean death overall any more, as might be the case in mind uploading.
Reflections on The Truths of Terasem 3.4.4
Ruben F. Novoa reflects upon The Truths of Terasem, the guiding principles of the Terasem Movement, a family of organizations founded by Martine and Bina Rothblatt.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 9 – 2014
Content:
Rejuvenation Re: Religion
Franco Cortese
Pentagonian Corporate Ethics?
Jorge E. Rodriguez, J.D., M.S.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 8 – 2013
Content:
Towards Rights For All People
John Niman, J.D. candidate
Can A Machine Have A Soul?
Bill Lauritzen
Modeling Intelligence
ROMsys Ltd
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 7
Content:
Sixty Years Old – is my future short and messy, or long and glorious?
Hank Pellissier
Cryonics and the HIPAA Privacy Rule
John Niman, J.D. candidate
The Subjectivity Trap
Martin O’Dea
The Meme of Altruism and Degrees of Personhood
Amanda Stoel
The Legal Status of Multiple Revived Versions of a Person
Martine Rothblatt, J.D., Ph.D.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 6, Issue 2 – Dec. 2011
Content:
Transcendent Engineering
Giulio Prisco
Not Just Monkeys in the House: Applying Traditional Understandings of Identity to Alternative Attainment of Personhood Status
Kristi Scott
Ideal Personalities
William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D.
Ethics and Viewpoints for Humanoids
Asma Qureshi
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 6, Issue 1
Content:
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, J.D.
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, CLA
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 5
Content:
Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right From Wrong
Wendell Wallach
A Possible Perspective: The Conscience is a Matter of Time in Emergent Systems
Prof. Álvaro Hernando Ramírez Llinás
Palling Around: The Personhood Analysis List (PAL)
Wesley DuCharme, Ph.D.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 4, Issue 2
Case Study: The Human Rights Travails of Prof. Steve Mann as a Partial Cyborg in 2008
Steve Mann, Ph.D.
What Life Might Be
Martin O’Dea
The Legal Aspects of “Forever for All”
R. Michael Perry, Ph.D.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 4, Issue 1
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
Martine Rothblatt, J.D.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 3, Issue 3
Content:
Concepts of Privacy in a Posthuman Age
Sebastian Sethe, Ph.D.
Marvin Minsky on The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
Marvin Minsky , Ph.D.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 3, Issue 2
Content:
The Rights of Avatars
William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D.
A Proactive-Pragmatic Approach to the Legal Status of Cyberminds
Max More, Ph.D.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 3, Issue 1
Content:
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
Linda MacDonald–Glenn, J.D., LLM
United States v. AI
Susan Fonseca–Klein, J.D.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 2, Issue 4
Content:
A New Opportunity to Teach and Succeed
Jack Harney
Constitutional Personhood
Michael Rivard, Esq.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 2, Issue 3
Content:
Trajectories to the Heavens
William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D.
Past Imperfect: Ancient Legal Codes and Future Transbeman Law–Precedents, Problems & Paradoxes
Professor Sam N. Lehman–Wilzig
Why Transbemans in Biostasis are Alive
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
BINA48 Mock Trial: Judge’s Decision
Gene Natale, J.D.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 2, Issue 2
Content:
Bina48 Mock Trial, Defendant’s Brief
Susan Fonseca–Klein, J.D.
Ethics for Machines
Josh Storrs–Hall, Ph.D.
Uniform Laws – Determination of Death Act/Anatomical Gifts – Future Legislation
Peter Langrock, Esq.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 2, Issue 1
Content:
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.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 1, Issue 4
All Together Now
George Dvorsky
Strategies for Personality Transfer
William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D.
On Genes, Bemes, and Conscious Things
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
Indirect Mind Uploading: Using AI to Avoid Staying Dead
Paul Almond
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 1, Issue 3
Macro-Bushido: A Geoethical Consciousness for an Info-Cultural Age
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
Defendant’s Brief BINA48 VS. EXABIT CORPORATION (Fla. MD 2005)
Susan Fonseca-Klein, Esq.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 1, Issue 2
Content:
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.
Defendant’s Brief BINA48 VS. EXABIT CORPORATION (Fla. MD 2005)
Martine Rothblatt, J.D.
Journal of Personal Cyberconsciousness, Volume 1, Issue 1
Content:
Forms of Transhuman Persons and the Importance of Prior Resolution of Relevant Law
Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D.
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
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