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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 00:11:48 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Terasem

It is interesting, exasperating, and frustrating to read about Terasem and  
try to gauge its effects, its usefulness or counterproductivity. 
 
Aside from the fact that all of its leaders appear to be women, members of  
Terasem seem in many respects to resemble cryonicists, and indeed support 
for  cryonics is one of its specific endeavors. But Terasem also seems to 
support a  whole gamut of futuristic programs including various kinds of 
transhumanism and  especially "mind uploading" (into a digital computer).
 
The evidence seems very clear to me that (1) "mind uploading" into a  
digital computer will never happen, and (2) support for the concept among  

cryonicists has a strong tendency to turn off potential supporters of cryonics.
 
Some numbers would be useful, but I don't have them. How many belong to  
Terasem? How many of these agree with the uploading notion? How many give how  
much money/effort to promotion of Terasem, and how much to cryonics?
 
Any help would be appreciated. I have had no luck trying to communicate  
with Martine Rothblatt.
 
Robert Ettinger

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