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<font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br><br>
</b></font>CONTACT: Robert A. Daye, Jr, 321-676-3690,
robert@terasemweb.org<br><br>
INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MARKED BY <br>
COLLOQUIUM ON THE LAW OF TRANSHUMAN PERSONS<br><br>
Public Access Welcome Via Conference Call Line<br><br>
8:30AM to 5:30PM EDT, Saturday December 10th, 2005December 8, 2005,
Space<br>
Coast, Florida -- The Terasem Movement announced today that it will
sponsor<br>
a toll-free conference call dial-in line for public participation in the
1st<br>
Colloquium on the Law of Transhuman Persons, to be held December 10,
2005.<br>
The pioneering meeting of legal and artificial intelligence experts is
being<br>
held in Space Coast, Florida in honor of International Human Rights
Day.<br><br>
"We encourage interested people to call in to listen or ask
questions," said<br>
Bina Aspen, Project Director. "All of the expert presentations
will be<br>
audiocast over the conference call line, and after each one, we will
open<br>
the phone lines for questions."<br><br>
To participate in the Colloquium, phone 1-800-500-0311 (U.S. callers)
or<br>
1-719-457-2698 (international callers). To view the program for
the<br>
Colloquium, visit
<a href="http://www.transhumanlaw.org/program.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.transhumanlaw.org/program.htm</a>.<br><br>
The Terasem Movement defines "transhumans" as conscious
entities who have or<br>
who aspire to have human rights, regardless of being of flesh,
electronics<br>
or a bioelectronic combination. The legal status of transhumans is
believed<br>
to be an impending fundamental issue for society.<br><br>
About the Terasem Movement<br><br>
The Terasem Movement, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charity
endowed<br>
for the purpose of educating the public on the practicality and necessity
of<br>
greatly extending human life, consistent with diversity and unity,
via<br>
geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness.<br><br>
The Terasem Movement accomplishes its objectives by convening
publicly<br>
accessible symposia, publishing explanatory analyses, conducting<br>
demonstration projects, issuing grants and encouraging public belief in
a<br>
positive technologically-based future.<br><br>
For more information, please visit
<a href="http://terasemfoundation.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://terasemfoundation.org</a>.<br><br><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>Cultural Strategist - Designer
<dd>Future Studies, University of Houston
<dd>President, <a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy Institute</a>
<dd>Member, <a href="http://www.profuturists.com/">Association of
Professional Futurists</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a>
<dd>Honorary Vice-Chair, <a href="http://transhumanism.org/">World
Transhumanist Association</a>
<dd>Senior Associate, <a href="http://foresight.org/">Foresight
Institute</a>
<dd>Advisor, <a href="http://alcor.org/">Alcor Life Extension
Foundation</a><br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective.
</i>
<dd>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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