"mindfiles, mindware and mindclones: legal aspects of virtual humans" 9 th colloquium on...
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"Mindfiles, Mindware and Mindclones:
Legal Aspects of Virtual Humans"
9th Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons
Martine [email protected]
Credit: Jan Gillbank http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
10 December 2013International Human Rights Day
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Some Definitions• Mindfile = Records of a person’s mannerisms, personality,
recollections, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values• Mindware = Software that generates a twin of the
consciousness reflected in a mindfile• Mindclone = The aspect of a person’s consciousness that
is running off mindware• Virtual Person = A legal description
of a human being whose consciousness is running off mindware; The slang term is “vumon” from virtual human person.
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Legal Aspects: Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness
• Are vumons alive?– A decision for doctors of the mind– Mindclones as mental prosthetics; artificial cortex– Tests, Time & Type Acceptance
• Are vumons free?– Different freedoms for different
kinds of vumons• Do vumons have equal opportunities?– Instincts for fairness v. xenophobia
Lori Darling, Second Life Resident
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Are vumons alive?
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Are vumons free?
Loving v. Virginia
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Vumon Equal Opportunity?
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Closing Thoughts
• Imagine You Were a Vumon – – You May Very Well Be in
a Decade or Few
• What Legal Status Would You Want?
• Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness?