1 Flesh Be Not Proud © Law and Advanced Prostheses Sander Rabin MD JD The Center for Transhuman Jurisprudence, Inc New York City Bar September 28, 2015
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Flesh Be Not Proud©
Law and Advanced Prostheses
Sander Rabin MD JDThe Center for Transhuman Jurisprudence, Inc
New York City BarSeptember 28, 2015
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Is damage to an advanced prosthesis property damage or a personal injury?
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Is fatal damage to this prosthesis property damage or wrongful death?
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Perspective
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Three Questions
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The “Rule of Law” Question
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The “Evolution” Question
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The “Epochal” Question
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The world that’s on it’s way is called …
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The path we’re on to get there is cyborgization.
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Cyborgization is an aspect of human enhancement
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Advanced Prostheses are a Human Enhancement Enabling Technology (HEET)
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MORPHOLOGICAL FREEDOM
PARTICIPANT EVOLUTION
PROCREATIVE LIBERTY
COGNITIVE LIBERTY
TECHNOLOGICAL SELF DETERMINATION
RADICAL LIFE EXTENSION
Transhuman Jurisprudence
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Hacking Neuroprosthesis Cognitive Liberty
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Which part of this picture is your body?
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Which part of this picture is not your body?
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The Body and a Ship Called Theseus
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A Human[?] Being Called Theseus
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One View of the Body and Three Values
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Subjectivity is Embodied
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Identity is Embodied
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Agency is Embodied
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Theories
Dignity, Personhood, Sanctity
Autonomy in Support of Privacy
Autonomy in Support of Property
Right to Bodily Integrity
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Abandon overarching right to bodily integrity based on theories of: • property, • autonomy (privacy), or • dignity with scope confined to boundaries of physical, organic, continuous human body.
Human Body as connected to Environment
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Replace rights IN our bodies, i.e., property, autonomy, dignity, with rights to functions and capabilities THROUGH our bodies, however they are sustained or modified.
Human Body as an Environmental Interface
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Replace traditional right to bodily integrity with rights to sustain, modify, and enhance: • embodied subjectivity; • embodied identity; and, • embodied agency.
Human Body as an instrument of the Self
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Protect a [human] being’s interest in:• embodied identity.• embodied subjectivity, and• embodied agency. If damaged, create liability independent of characterizations such as “property,” “body,” “organic,” “synthetic”, etc.These are arbitrary in a future given by cyborgization.
Cyborg Liability
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The Center for Transhuman Jurisprudence
The mission of the Center for Transhuman Jurisprudence is consultation and education on the choices that are and will be
available to people in matters of their minds, bodies, and genes.
The vision of The Center for Transhuman Jurisprudence is to effect a legal metamorphosis that will sustain a technologically
enhanced civilization.
Sander Rabin MD JD [email protected]
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