identity

Articles (2)

Finding Ourselves Making

2026.07.29

Explore how identity is not fixed but organized—admitting degrees of complexity, persistence, and change—through the lenses of materialism, panpsychism, and Mormon theology.

2015 Member Survey

2015.11.28

Participate in the 2015 Mormon Transhumanist Association member survey, featuring new ideological identity questions to help leadership better represent you.

Quotations (2)

Brigham Young

[For] the intelligence that is in me to cease to exist is a horrid thought; it is past enduring. This intelligence must exist; it must dwell somewhere. If I take the right course and preserve it in its organization, I will preserve to myself eternal life. This is the greatest gift that ever was bestowed on mankind, to know how to preserve their identity…

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Brigham Young

It has also been decreed by the Almighty that spirits, upon taking bodies, shall forget all they had known previously, or they could not have a day of trial—could not have an opportunity for proving themselves in darkness and temptation, in unbelief and wickedness, to prove themselves worthy of eternal existence.

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Identity