Terasem Movement

Terasem Movement

1) Terasem Movement, Inc. (http://www.TerasemCentral.org), incorporated in 2002, is a 501c3 not-for profit charitable organization located in Melbourne Beach, FL and is the eldest of the sister orgs. TMI’s mission is to educate the public on the practicality and necessity of greatly extending human life, consistent with diversity and unity, via geoethical nanotechnology and personal cyberconsciousness, concentrating in particular on facilitating revivals from biostasis. The Movement focuses on preserving, evoking, reviving and downloading human consciousness. TMI achieves this objective through its yearly workshop and colloquium, safe keeping mindfiles within its CyBeRev Project (www.CyBeRev.org http://www.CyBeRev.org), publishing two online Journals (www.TerasemJournals.org http://www.TerasemJournals.org), that on Geoethical** Nanotechnology as well as Personal Cyberconsciousness, grant writing, production of the screen adaptation of Ray Kurzweil’s best-selling book, The Singularity Is Near (http://www.singularity.com/themovie) and outreach programs. TMI also works to ensure that the burgeoning technologies are used in a manner that is safe for humans and the environment and not available solely to the elite, but to all.

Contact: Lori Rhodes, Vice President

2) Terasem Movement Foundation, Inc. http://www.TerasemMovementFoundation.com) (TMF), incorporated in 2004, is a 501c3 not-for-profit, educational operating foundation located in Lincoln, VT. Its mission is to promote the geoethical use of nano & cybernetic technology for human life extension. TMF conduct’s educational programs and support scientific research (LifeNaut Project) and development in the areas of cryogenics, biotechnology, and cyber consciousness. The common purpose of all of the Terasem Movement Foundation’s (TMF) projects is to investigate the Terasem Hypotheses.

Current projects include: Lifenaut.com: A long-term research study that offers a free online repository of individual digital reflections/biographical information (Mindfiles) and a place to cryogenically store DNA samples (BioFiles) for longterm preservation and eventual re-animation as technology evolves. FB: Lifenaut Twitter:@Lifenaut

TMF is also home to BINA48 a social robot (Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture 48 – 48 exaflops is the speed at which the human brain is purported to compute) that is an early demonstration of the potential for using “mindfiles” for transferring human consciousness information to new forms. TMF encourages public dialog about cyber-consciousness via public presentations and social media. FB:IamBina48 Twitter:@iBina48).

World Against Racism Museum is online exhibition designed to educate the public, especially young people, about the fiction of race, the ignorance behind racism and the need to relate to all people as individuals rather than as racial categories. FB: World-Against-Racism-Museum Twitter:@WorldAgnsRacism

2B Feature Sci Fi film: The script is based upon real science and evolving technologies. The ‘techno-human’ conundrum is the hottest and most controversial topic of this century. This film is an entertainment designed to jumpstart the conversation about the moral and religious questions raised by the biotech revolution. FB:2BMovie Twitter:@2Bmovie

Contact: Bruce Duncan, Managing Director

3) Terasem Movement Transreligion, Inc. (‘trans’ = transcending or going beyond traditional religions), at (www.TerasemFaith.net) incorporated in 2004, with locations in Melbourne Beach, FL and Bristol, VT, is the third and youngest of the Terasem orgs and is a 501c3 not-for-profit religious organization. Its mission is to build a collective consciousness comprised of joyful immortal extensions of each of its joiners. Tera - sem means Earth (Tera) – Seed (sem). Though Terasem considers all humans as ‘Joiners’, after receiving inquiries about how one may formally ‘join’ Terasem, TMT provided a ‘Joinership’ application and induction on its site.

Note: TMI’s CyBeRev Project and TMF’s LifeNaut Project were created wholly apart from one another by two diverse teams of professionals, but are based on the same two hypotheses accessible at http://cyberev.org/ and http://www.terasemmovementfoundation.com respectively.

The Terasem Hypotheses are greatly detailed within Dr. Martine Rothblatt’s 2012 article in the Journal of Machine Consciousness entitled, “The Terasem Mind Uploading Experiment’, accessible at http://www.terasemcentral.org/docs/Terasem%20Mind%20Uploading%20Experiment%20IJMC.pdf.

Contact: Lori Rhodes, Joiner


 * Geoethical, as defined by Dr. Rothblatt, means “the study of technology risk/benefit management across geographic spaces. Analogously, Bioethics is the study of technology risk/benefit management across corporeal spaces.”