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Lincoln Cannon, president of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, will present at the Venturists’ Cryonics Convention, held 7-9 November 2014 in Laughlin, Nevada.

Is Death (and taxes) No Longer Inevitable?

Larry Page, the CEO of Google, has invested billions of dollars of his company’s capital into a new company called Calico, which has the goal of finding cures for aging and death.

Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D., the world’s foremost scientific gerontologist, says that the first person to live 1,000 years has probably already been born.

In the interest of ongoing transparency, the Board of Directors of the Mormon Transhumanist Association is pleased to release the following leadership performance review. Each member of the Board independently evaluated the performance of the Board as a whole and the performance of CEO Lincoln Cannon, who is appointed by the Board to manage the Association. Secretary of the Board, Dorothy Deasy, gathered and compiled the evaluations into a single review, which follows.

Board of Director’s Performance Review

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), the largest Mormon denomination, has raised charges of apostasy against two prominent Mormons: Kate Kelly of Ordain Women, and John Dehlin of Mormon Stories. Although the Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) is not affiliated with any of these organizations, most MTA members are also members of the LDS Church, and some MTA members have strong differing opinions about the recent events.

The Mormon Transhumanist Association has selected new leadership.

Voting members of the Association have elected Chris Bradford, Joseph West and Nathan Hadfield to serve as Directors from 2014 to 2017. They will join Carl Youngblood, Don Bradley, Dorothy Deasy, James Carroll, Karl Hale and Lincoln Cannon on the Association Board of Directors.

The newly composed Board of Directors has appointed Carl Youngblood as Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, Dorothy Deasy as Secretary, and Nathan Hadfield as Chief Information Officer.

The Mormon Transhumanist Association is sponsoring the recording of a panel discussion on “Atheists & Mormons: Exposing Myths, Dispelling Stereotypes, a free public event in the Nancy Tessman Auditorium at the Salt Lake City Public Library on Wednesday 16 April at 7pm. Subsequently, the recording will be available to the public for free on the association's YouTube channel.

The panel discussion has been organized by the American Atheists and will be moderated by Dr. Paul Reeve of the University of Utah. Panelists will address public perceptions of atheists and Mormons, tackle common stereotypes of both groups, dispel myths, and answer audience questions.

The Mormon Transhumanist Association is pleased to co-sponsor the Religion and Transhumanism conference on 10 May 2014 in Piedmont, California, with the Brighter Brains Institute and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology. Lincoln Cannon, president of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, will speak at the conference. The Mormon Transhumanist Association will also record all presentations at the conference and share the recordings publicly on its YouTube channel subsequent to the conference. More information about the conference, including the full list of speakers, is available at the official conference website.

The Mormon Transhumanist Association has released a summary of results from its 2013 member survey. The survey asked questions about religion, politics, feedback and demographics. It also explored members’ views on the nature of God, the problem of evil, and consciousness. At the end of 2013, the association consisted of 379 members, 96 of whom participated in the survey. The association thanks Brent Allsop for managing the 2013 survey. The 2013 survey results summary, as well as an archive of survey result summaries from previous years, is available at the following link:

[http://transfigurism.org/pages/about/member-survey-results/]

The 2014 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association is streaming LIVE 9am to 6pm Mountain at Transfigurism.org. Please use #mtaconf for social posts related to the conference. Administrators will monitor for questions.

The Mormon Transhumanist Association is pleased to announce the schedule for its 2014 Conference, which will be held on 4 April 2014 from 9:00am to 6:00pm in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the Salt Lake City Public Library. Speakers will present on the themes of Mormonism, Transhumanism and Transfigurism, with particular attention to topics at the intersection of technology, spirituality, science and religion. Keynote speakers will be Mormon philosopher Adam S. Miller and Transhumanist designer Natasha Vita-More. The conference is open to the public.

Register now^[1][1] for the 2014 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association!

9:00-9:05 Welcome

The March 2014 Discussion Group of the Mormon Transhumanist Association will be on Saturday, March 22, at 10:30am mountain time (9:30am PST, 12:30pm EST, 5:30pm UK, 6:30pm EU), in Google+ Hangouts. If you have already participated in a MTA discussion group, you know what to do. Otherwise, please join Google+ and the MTA community on Google+, add Lincoln and Giulio to a circle, and let us know that you wish to participate so we can invite you.

We will start with discussion on:

• Fictional media tropes of mind uploading and cyborgization.

• The upcoming MTA conference on April 4.