Journal Articles

Read selected journal articles exploring Mormon Transhumanism and its intersections with religion, science, and technology.

• Latter-day Saints and the Future of the Internet, Carl Youngblood, Wayfare, 20 Dec 2024.
• Algorithmic Advent: Great Expectations on the Verge of AGI, Carl Youngblood, Wayfare, 31 Aug, 2023. Explores important issues related to the approaching development of artificial general intelligence, and contextualizes emerging machine intelligence in Mormon theology and in Transhumanism.
• What is Mormon Transhumanism?, Lincoln Cannon, Theology and Science, vol 13, issue 2, 2015, pp 202-218, DOI: 10.1080/14746700.2015.1023992. Defines and explores Mormon Transhumanism, and investigates future knowledge revolutions (such as those caused by advances in biotech, nanotech, artificial intelligence, and space exploration) from both secular (transhumanist) and religious (Mormon) perspectives.
• Transfiguration: Parallels and Complements between Mormonism and Transhumanism, Members of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Sunstone, 2007, p 25-33. Explores Mormon visions for the future of humanity and asserts that an active faith⁠–as instantiated in Mormon Transhumanism⁠–is essential to realizing Mormon conceptions of our transfigured future state.
• Comment on “Transfiguration: Parallels and Complements between Mormonism and Transhumanism”, Samuel L. Holmes, and Response, Lincoln Cannon Sunstone, 2007, pp 3-4.