Presentations

Watch conference keynotes and other presentations exploring Mormon Transhumanism, religion, science, and technology.

Browse annotated presentations from Mormon Transhumanist Association conferences, organized by conference year. More presentations are available on the MTA YouTube channel.

MTA Conference Presentations

Keynote Presentations

• Alt.AI: Why the Best Future of Machine Learning Is Modest, Benjamin Peters, Keynote address, 2024 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: The Glory of God is Intelligence, Provo UT, 13 Apr 2024, 46 min, video.
• The AI Scaling Revolution and the Future of Intelligence, Irina Rish, Keynote address, 2024 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: The Glory of God is Intelligence, Provo UT, 13 Apr 2024, 55 min, video.
• Little Democracies Everywhere: Empowering the Collective and Individuals, Laura Shin, Keynote address, 2022 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Decentralization of Power, Provo UT, 19 Mar 2022, 46 min, video.
• First Principles for a Decentralized Future, Tomicah Tillemann, Keynote address, 2022 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Decentralization of Power, 19 Mar 2022, 46 min, video.
• Panel Discussion, Neal Davis, Laura Shin, & Tomicah Tillemann, Lincoln Cannon moderator, 2022 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Decentralization of Power, Provo UT, 19 Mar 2022, 47 min, video.
• Paradise Engineering: Reprogramming the Biosphere, David Pearce, Keynote address, 2020 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: The Earth Will Be Renewed, Virtual, 3 May 2020, 33 min, video.
• Meditating on Ancestors and Descendants, James Hughes, Keynote address, 2019 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Redeeming Our Dead, Salt Lake City UT, 14 May 2019, 40 min, video.
• Chris Benek, Keynote address, 2019 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Redeeming Our Dead, Salt Lake City UT, 14 May 2019, 40 min, video.
• Better Days 2020, Neylan McBaine, Keynote address, 2019 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Redeeming Our Dead, Salt Lake City UT, 14 May 2019, 40 min, video.
• Lightning in a Bottle: The Technology of Religious Organization, Melissa Inouye, Keynote address, 2018 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Worlds Without Number, Provo UT, 7 Apr 2018, 54 min, video.
• Future of Healthy Longevity, Elizabeth Parrish, Keynote address, 2018 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Worlds Without Number, Provo UT, 7 Apr 2018, 49 min, video.
• The Evolution of Novelty in an Open Universe: Requiem for Laplace's Demon, Steven Peck, Keynote Address, 2017 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Evolving Gods, Provo UT, 8 Apr 2017, 60 min, video.
• The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth, Robin Hanson, Keynote Address, 2017 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Evolving Gods, Provo UT, 8 Apr 2017, 54 min, video.
• A Material Girl in a Material World: Mormonism, Materialism and Gender, Rosalynde Welch, Keynote Address, 2016 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Provo UT, 9 Apr 2016, 63 min, video.
• Eternal Progression, Eric Steinhart, Keynote Address, 2016 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Provo UT, 9 Apr 2016, 52 min, video.
• ‘Whatsoever Love Elects to Bless’: Baroque, Romantic, Transhumanist and Mormon Expressions of Abundance, Kristine Haglund, Keynote Address, 2015 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Salt Lake City UT, 3 Apr 2015, 55 min, videos.
• Science, Technology, and Exaltation, Ralph Merkle, Keynote Address, 2015 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Salt Lake City UT, 3 Apr 2015, 54 min, video.
• Thoughts on Transhumanism and Religion, Natasha Vita-More, Keynote Address, 2014 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Salt Lake City UT, 9 Apr 2014, 50 min, video.
• Why Suffering is Eternal and the Body is Forever, Adam Miller, Keynote Address, 2014 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Salt Lake City UT, 9 Apr 2014, 48 min, video.
• Fear and Trembling at the Tower of Babel, Terryl Givens, Keynote Address, 2014 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Salt Lake City UT, 9 Apr 2014, 21 Min, video.
• Why it is a sin NOT to strive to develop medicine that eliminates aging, Aubrey de Grey, Keynote address, 2013 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Salt Lake City UT, 5 Apri 2013, 45 min, video.
• From Humanity to Fulness the Mormon Way, Richard Bushman, Keynote address, 2013 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Salt Lake City UT, 5 Apri 2013, 45 min, video.
• The Consolation: An Adaptation of the King Follett Sermon of Joseph Smith, Lincoln Cannon, Keynote address, 2012 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Salt Lake City UT, 6 Apr 2012, 40 min, video.
• Apotheosis and Perpetual Progress, Max More, Keynote Address, Spirituality and Transhumanism 2010, Max More, 38 min, video.
• The Compatibility of Religion and Transhumanism, James Hughes, Spirituality and Transhumanism 2010, Max More, 38 min, video.
• No Small and Cramped Eternities, Terryl Givens, Keynote address, 2009 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Parallels and Convergences - Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision, Claremont CA, 6-7 Mar 2009, 53 min, video.
• Spiritual Underpinnings for a Space Program, William Pickett, 2009 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Parallels and Convergences - Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision, Claremont CA, 6-7 Mar 2009, 21 min, video.
• Transfiguration: Parallels and Complements between Mormonism and Transhumanism, Carl Youngblood, 2009 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Parallels and Convergences - Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision, Claremont CA, 6-7 Mar 2009, 24 min, video.

All MTA Conference Presentations

• General links: Conferences of the Mormon Transhumanist Association Website
• Mormon Transhumanist Association YouTube Channel (@Transfigurism)
• 2024 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: The Glory of God is Intelligence, Provo UT, 13 Apr 2024, 24 videos.
• 2022 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Decentralization of Power, Provo UT, 19 Mar 2022, 21 videos.
• 2020 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: The Earth Will Be Renewed, Virtual, 3 May 2020, Virtual, 16 videos.
• 2019 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Redeeming Our Dead, Salt Lake City UT, 13 Apr 2019, 20 videos.
• 2018 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Worlds Without Number, Provo UT, 7 Apr 2018, 15 videos.
• 2017 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Evolving Gods, Provo UT, 8 Apr 2017, 16 videos.
• 2016 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Provo UT, 9 Apr 2016, 18 videos.
• 2015 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Salt Lake City, 3 Apr 2015, 22 videos.
• 2014 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Salt Lake City, 9 Apr 2014, 23 videos.
• 2013 Conferenceof the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Salt Lake City UT, 5 Apr 2013, 24 Videos.
• 2012 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Salt Lake City UT, 6 Apr 2012, 23 videos.
• 2009 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association: Parallels and Convergences - Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision, Claremont CA, 6-7 Mar 2009, 14 Videos.

Lincoln Cannon Presentations

• Eternal Life for Humanity, Lincoln Cannon, Church of Perpetual Life, 27 Jan 2022, 62 min, video.
• Nootropics & Human Enhancement with Lincoln Cannon, Lincoln Cannon, Christian Transhumanist Association, 9 Oct 2021, 80 min, video.
• The New God Argument with Lincoln Cannon, Lincoln Cannon, Christian Transhumanist Association, 18 Jan 2021, 119 min, video.
• The New God Argument, Lincoln Cannon, Sunstone Symposium 2019, Mountain America Expo Center, Sandy, Utah, 3 Aug 2019, 92 min, audio.
• Welcome to Mormon Transhumanism, Ben Blair, Blaire Ostler, Lincoln Cannon, Sunstone Symposium 2019, Mountain America Expo Center, Sandy, Utah, 3 Aug 2019, 58 min, audio.
• Mormon Transhumanism, Lincoln Cannon, India Awakens Conference, TeleXLR8, 12 Feb 2017, 65 min, video.
• Transhumanism and the Mormon Faith, Lincoln Cannon, Theologians Testing Transhumanism, University of California, Berkeley, California, 7 Dec 2016, 144 min, video.
• Harmony of Potential and Origin in Religious Transhumanism, Lincoln Cannon, South Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, 10 Jul 2016, 60 min, video.
• The Consolation, Lincoln Cannon, Turing Church Online Workshop 2, TeleXLR8, 11 Dec 2011, 33 min, video.
• Transfigurism, Lincoln Cannon, Turing Church Online Workshop 1, TeleXLR8, 20 Nov 2010, 67 min, video.
• Reasons for Technological Interpretations of Mormonism, Lincoln Cannon, Sunstone Symposium 2010, Sheraton Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah, 7 Aug 2010, text transcript & audio.
• Theological Implications of the New God Argument, Lincoln Cannon, Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology Conference 2010, Library Lecture Hall, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, 26 Mar 2010, text transcript & audio.
• Mormonism: A Religion of the Future, Lincoln Cannon, Conference on the Future of Religions and Religions of the Future, Extropia, Second Life, 4 Jun 2008, text transcript & audio..
• Parallels Between Transhumanism and Mormonism, Lincoln Cannon, Second Life Transhumanists, Extropia, Second Life, 30 Mar 2008, 27 min, audio.
• Practical Faith in Prophetic Vision, Sunstone Symposium 2007, Lincoln Cannon, Brent Allsop, Bryant Smith, Chris Bradford, Joseph West, Karl Hale, and Kathy Wilson, Sheraton Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah, 10 Aug 2007, 58 min, audio.
• Mormon Transhumanism, Lincoln Cannon, Sunstone Symposium 2006, Sheraton Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah, 12 Aug 2006, 62 min, audio.
• Heaven Could Be a Place on Earth, Abigail Kittler, Anyssa Logan, and Lincoln Cannon, Eternal Echoes, 2 Apr 2024, 15 min, video.