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A quarterly review of the Mormon Transhumanist Association

Transfigurist Quarterly
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Now you can watch conferences and presentations, sponsored by the association or participated in by our members Conferences:

Association Conference
April 6, 2012 @ SLC Public Library!
Speakers addressed the themes of Mormonism, Transhumanism and Transfigurism, with particular attention to topics at the intersection of technology, spirituality, science and religion. The conference streamed live for online viewers.

2012 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association Turing Church Workshop 2 Turing Church Workshop 1 Transhumanism and Spirituality Conference Mormonism and Engineering Conference

Presentations:

A Mormon Perspective on Transhumanism The New God Argument

... and more. Check em out!

Mormonism and Transhumanism The Associations annual conference Dan Wotherspoon on Things Morwas a huge success this year! 24 mon Transhumanist Nerds Should YouTube videos captured the action, Keep in Mind When Interacting with which wasnt limited to the Potential Non-Transhumanist Allies Library. Especially Ones Attendees also enjoyed Did you know recordwithin Their Own Tralunch and dinner together dition ings are available on between sessions, and built Evan Hadfield on the Associations friendships and associations. God as Universal ExA selection of the addresses YouTube channel? perience: A Buddhist and Mormon Perspecavailable to watch include: tive Giulio Prisco on The Marcus Flinders on Turing Church of Transcendent EngiTaxation in a Millennial World neering Micah Redding on James Carroll on Transhumanism and the Christian Epiphenomenalism, the Problem Story with Property Dualism Michael Ferguson on Toward a Conference proceedings will be availaScience of Spirituality ble soon, courtesy of James Carroll. Mike Perry on Christian Atheist Universal Immortalism Thanks to all who participated! Next Varden Hadfield on How Amazing years conference will take place on is Grace? The Role of Jesus Christ in April 5, 2013.

New Directors Elected

Finding An Agent directors took their places on the Board of Directors: Dorothy Deasy and James CarOn 1 May, 2012, two new Thats Right For You
roll. Lincoln Cannon was elected to continue serving as a director. We extend sincere thanks to the outgoing directors: Carl Youngblood and Brent Allsop. Brent will continue his service to the MTA as the project manager for the annual member survey, and Carl has agreed to fill the newlycreated position of Chief Information Officer.

Best Paper awards from April Conference

Chris Bradford on Bodies Without End: Embodiment in a Substrate-Independent World Brad Carmack on Mormonism Beyond the Gender Binary James Carroll on Epiphenomenalism, the Problem with Property Dualism Marcus Flinders on Taxation in a Millennial World Karl Hale on Worshiping an Extra-Terrestrial Humanoid Deity Micah Redding on Transhumanism and the Christian Storys.

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Title changes, finances

What: The Board approved leadership title changes: Brad Carmack Chief Operations Officer, Carl Youngblood Chief Information Officer, Karl Hale Chief Financial Officer, Lincoln Cannon Chief Executive Officer, Marcus Flinders Chief Legal Officer. What: Chief Financial Officer Karl Hale provided a financial summary of the Association in May. See http://
transfigurism.org/pages/about/finances/

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building blocks of life as we know it. Through this effort the Rosetta@home nonprofit organization behind the effort hopes to better understand and fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer and Alzheimer's. Rosetta@home the organization depends on the help of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world to run their program to create

a distributed, virtual supercomputer that rivals the worlds fastest (and most expensive) supercomputers. Current project manager Capable Association Director, Bryant Smith, is the current project manager: bryant.smith@transfigurism.org See also: http:// boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/