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MTA Essay on AI featured in Wayfare Magazine

2023.09.19

Wayfare Magazine’s latest online issue features contributions from various LDS thinkers on artificial intelligence, including an essay by MTA President Carl...

The Gospel of Tron

2017.09.11

Explore the spiritual parallels between programming, creation, and Mormon theology—how creative processes mirror divine emergence and draw us closer to understanding God and eternity.

Transhumanist Advent: Take up thy bed, and walk

2016.12.06

Explore how walking exoskeletons and accessible technology echo Christ’s healing miracle, restoring independence and mobility to those with disabilities. A Transhumanist Advent reflection.

Transhumanist Advent: He gave them power to heal all manner of sickness

2016.12.04

Explore how Christ’s mandate to heal all sickness inspires transhumanist medicine, from ancient miracles to modern gene therapies and compassionate technology.

The Problem of Pain

2016.04.26

Exploring pain not as a logical problem but as a visceral human experience—poverty, loss, and injustice that challenges even real Gods and demands more than future promises.

The Future of Real: Meaning and Social Intelligence in a Transhuman Age

2015.09.05

Exploring how emerging technologies reshape our understanding of reality, meaning, and social intelligence as we enter a transhuman age where sensory boundaries dissolve.

Creator Status: Are We There Yet?

2015.07.07

Exploring how No Man’s Sky’s 18 quintillion procedurally generated planets brings humanity closer to creator status—and what that means for our theological and technological future.

Emergent Mormon Perspectives on Kurzweilian Epochs of Evolution

2015.05.11

Explore how Mormon theology aligns with Kurzweil’s epochs of evolution, connecting naturalistic divinization doctrines with transhumanist visions of humanity’s cosmic potential.

Life Extension and Zombie Viruses

2015.02.07

Exploring how “zombie viruses” and vaccine innovation advance transhumanist life extension goals while highlighting that social justice is as vital as scientific progress.

And the earth shall be given unto them for an inheritance

2015.01.09

Explore how transhumanist thought and Mormon theology converge in fulfilling prophecy through human action, technology, and consent-based governance in a post-Singularity world.