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Keynote Speakers Announced Annual conference welcomes Aubrey de Grey

Dr. de Grey, substituting for Ben Goertzel, will

present "Why it is a sin NOT to strive to devel-

op medicine that eliminates aging" at the Asso-

ciation annual conference on 5 April 2013. He

is a biomedical gerontologist based in Cam-

bridge, UK and Mountain View, California,

USA, and is the Chief Science Officer of SENS

Foundation, a California-based 501(c)(3) chari-

ty dedicated to combating the aging process.

Other keynote speakers include:

Richard Bushman, author of Rough Stone

Rolling, presenting: “From Humanity to

Fulness the Mormon way”

Carl Teichrib, editor of Forcing Change,

presenting: “A Christian Critique of Chris-

tian Transhumanism”

Dr. Peter Wicks, presenting “An Atheist

Transhumanist Critique of Religious

Transhumanism”

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Call for Papers: Annual Association Conference

Quarterly

Friday April 5, 2013 @ SLC!

Call for Papers: Upcoming Annual Association Conference

Singularity 1 on 1 interview

Saving the world one protein at a time: Rosetta@Home

Association goes Meetup

Speakers will address the themes of Mormonism, Transhumanism and Transfigurism, with par-

ticular attention to topics at the intersection of technology, spirituality, science and religion.

Papers should be approximately two to

six pages in length. Authors of accepted

papers will be given approximately 10

minutes to present the ideas in their pa-

pers at the conference. A selection of the

best of those papers will subsequently

be published in the conference proceed-

ings, which will be made available

online and potentially in print form.

Therefore, papers should be written with

admin@transfigurism.org, by email

attachment. Include author's full name,

contact information, and title.

Some funding is available to reimburse

portions of travel for presenters. Please

indicate interest in being considered for

travel support in the submission email.

First deadline for papers falls in Janu-

ary. Anticipate another excellent confer-

ence!

Have you made plans to

attend the Association’s

annual conference?

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 socie-

ty in general. These papers

need not focus only on spe-

cifically Mormon religious

issues.

Papers should be

approximately two to

six pages in length.

Authors will have 10

minutes to present

Transfigurist

A quarterly review of the Mormon Transhumanist Association

the intent of eventual pub-

lication in mind (full cita-

tions, references, foot-

notes, etc.). Authors

whose papers are selected

for publication will be

given an editor to work

with, to prepare their final

paper for publication.

Please send submissions in

RTF, PDF, or MS Word

format to

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On 17 December, 2012, Association President Lincoln Cannon interviewed with Nikola Danaylov, the host of

Singularity 1 on 1. Nikola regularly interviews transhumanists about the “trends, news, issues and people related

to the technological singularity.”

In the worthwhile hour long interview, posted on www.singularityweblog.com, Lincoln explained the founding of

the Association and described his views about the intersection of many religious and transhumanist ideas.

One-on-One

Have you joined other Association mem-

bers to help cure major diseases by run-

ning Rosetta@Home on your computer

when you're not using it? Our team al-

ready ranks in the top 143 of over 10,000

teams in the world, and you can make a

difference!

What is Rosetta@Home?

Rosetta@home is a small program that

Association members & Rosetta@home

Want to help save the world? Volunteer your computer!

Association update >>>

Association goes MeetUp

Association members meet in person

once a month. Learn more at http://

transfigurism.meetup.com/

New Association Bloggers

Bruce Nielson at "The Millennial Star"

Christian Schumann-Curtis at "Blue Sky GIS"

David Kelley at "The Pratoriate Foundation"

Gabriel Rothblatt at "Terasemian"

Gary Parker at "Transfigurist Art"

Jonathan Cannon at "Monster Hunting Re-

sources on Demand"

Jordan Roberts at "Zion on my mind"

Juan Lopez at "Renacimiento: cultura paleocon-

servadora, dentro de una perspectiva etica"

Rob Lauer at "Reform Mormonism: Gospel Doc-

trine"

Steve Keane at "Specialization is for Insects"

Tatiana Boshenka at "The Tatiana"

runs on

your computer to simulate the 3-dimentional

structures of proteins, the building blocks of

life as we know it. The effort hopes to better

understand and fight diseases such as HIV,

Malaria, Cancer and Alzheimer's.

Want to get involved? Contact Association

D i r e c t o r , B r y a n t S m i t h , a t

bryant.smith@transfigurism.org.

The Association is now accepting journal arti-

cles for the first edition of the upcoming

"Journal of Technology and Religious Stud-

ies." Send potential articles to

james.carroll@transfigurism.org.

A more detailed call for papers will be availa-

ble shortly!

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