The Center for Transhuman Jurisprudence – CTJ

Standing before the following three questions:

1. What do we do when the rule of law can no longer keep up with the rate of technological change?

2. How can therule of law address our assumption of the role of natural selection in evolution?

3. What isthe role of the rule of law in the emerging Anthropocene epoch?

The mission of The Center for Transhuman Jurisprudence is to educate people on the choices available to them in matters of their minds, bodies, and genomes; and, in so doing, to bring about a legal metamorphosis that will coherently sustain a technological civilization.

The vision of CTJ is to contribute to the founding of a coherently sustainable technological civilization.

Certain technologies are converging to amplify human physical and mental capabilities, to surpass human intelligence, and to create new forms of life. I call their convergence human enhancement enabling technology (#heet). Finding our way throughthe excitement, hope, and fear presented by#heet requires us to make choices about our own human nature and the very nature of nature itself. These choices are some of the toughest weve ever had to make. They ask us to question many of the rock-hard "facts of life" that we've taken as obvious or essential. These choices will soon take on a legal, political, and practical relevance in our day-to-day lives.

The freedom to choose, which includes the freedom not to choose, is essential to our way of life. Being free to choose as an individual usually has limits if were going to live together as a society. In most societies, the limits placed on freedom of choice and who is entitled to make a choice are aspects of what we call a right; and, a right is a privilege given only to people that the law regards as persons. You might think that all people are persons as far as the law is concerned, but this has never been true. Dealing with the question of whether technologically enhanced humans and artificial intelligence entities are persons entitled to any rights is among the many legal issues we must decide.

As of 2015, there are no laws in the United States or elsewhere about human enhancement, artificial intelligence, neurotechnology, or artificial life. Welcome to The Center for Transhuman Jurisprudence: #lawthathinks about #biologybydesign.

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