We cordially invite you to submit papers to the 2013 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, which will be held on Friday, April 5th, 2013, in Salt Lake City, Ut. The aim of this conference is to address the many issues and topics that lie at the intersection of technology and religion, their impacts on each other, and on society in general. These papers need not focus only on specifically Mormon religious issues.

Register today for the 2013 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, which will be held on 5 April 2013 from 9am to 6pm in Salt Lake City, Utah. Speakers will address the themes of Mormonism, Transhumanism and Transfigurism, with particular attention to topics at the intersection of technology, spirituality, science and religion. Previous conferences sponsored by the Mormon Transhumanist Association include the 2012 conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, the 2010 Transhumanism and Spirituality conference, and the 2009 Mormonism and Engineering conference. The conference is open to the public.

As of September 17th, 2012, the MTA has $5,264 total cash on hand with $706 in the endowment.

The full report can be found at [http://transfigurism.org/pages/about/finances/]

Karl Hale CFO

The Mormon Transhumanist Association has added several member blogs to those aggregated on our website home page and blog page, as well as to our feeds and social network broadcasts -- reaching nearly 20,000 persons per week!

Here are the newest additions:

Carl Youngblood, CIO and founding member of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, will be presenting at the Annual Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City at 9:45am on Thursday, July 26th. The title of his talk is "Compassionate Obsolescence: Coping with Technological Change." Additional information and registration instructions can be found at Sunstone's web site.

The fifth issue of the Transfigurist Quarterly, highlighting news and events related to the Mormon Transhumanist Association, is now available. You're invited to download and share it.

Transfigurist Quarterly Issue 5

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As of the end of May, 2012, the MTA has $5,410 total cash on hand with $706 in the endowment.

Our 2012 conference cost the association $3,144 beyond the participant registration fees of $440. The majority of the conference expenses went to travel reimbursement for voting members of the association for whom the association paid half of personal travel expenses. In total, the association reimbursed members $2,295 for travel to the conference.

The full report can be found at [http://transfigurism.org/pages/about/finances/]

Karl Hale CFO

Now you can watch conferences and presentations, sponsored by the association or participated in by our members, on the new Mormon Transhumanist Association Channel!

Conferences

• 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

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This slick seven minute summary of the Association's April conference was posted on 19 May 2012. Complete with background music and professional transitions, the video captures the spirit of the conference and speaker highlights!

We had a wonderful conference this year, and all the conference presentations are available online. There were many excellent presentations and papers. We have chosen to extend a best paper award to the top 1/3rd of the papers submitted to the conference, (the top 6 papers), with an invitation for them to have their papers included in a published conference proceedings. Each paper was ranked by three (and in some cases four) reviewers. No reviewer reviewed their own paper.The decision was not just made based upon the quality of the oral conference presentation, but also upon the suitability of each talk for printed publication (the best talks are not always the best papers and visa versa).

This award goes to, in alphabetical order:

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 Story”