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The Mormon Transhumanist Association will be hosting the first of a series of monthly round table discussions on 19 January 2008. Subsequent discussions will be held on the third Saturday of each month. This month's discussion will be focused on Nick Bostrum's Fable of the Dragon Tyrant which is available on Dr. Bostrum's homepage. Andrew West, Director of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, will moderate the discussion. The event will be held in the conference hall of the Arnell-West building located at 3441 S 2200 W, Salt Lake City, Utah, just southeast of the E-Center.The discussion will begin at 7:00 PM Mountain Time. Light refreshments will be served.

Five World Transhumanist Association Board members’ terms expire this month, and eight candidates are standing for election to replace them. WTA Board members set policy goals and oversee their implementation, contributing with their experience and expertise to the WTA’s work. The term of service for these seats is two years, which for these five open positions means Jan 20, 2008 - Jan 19, 2010. Voting in this election is open to all voting members of the association in good standing as of 7pm EST/midnight GMT of Saturday January 5th, 2008. Voting will take place from Monday January 7th, 2008 to 7pm EST/midnight GMT of Sunday January 13th, 2008. If you are a voting member and do not receive a link to the balloting on Monday please contact the Assistant Director. Note that all voting members of the Mormon Transhumanist Association are voting members of the World Transhumanist Association.

Dear Fellow Transhumanist,

Be a part of Transhumanist history!

Bill Faloon of Life Extension Foundation and Brian Cartmell of Cartmell Holdings, LLC, have generously offered to help us kick off our first fundraising event by matching your donations up to $25,000 until January 31, 2008.

We need 250 members to give $100 each, so your donations can be doubled. This is a unique opportunity we cannot afford to miss!

This money will fund three projects necessary for the WTA's survival against a well-funded, organized, and vocal opposition. We intend to spread our memes through:

The Mormon Transhumanist Association is now in Facebook!

Facebook is a social networking tool that enables you to share news, pictures, links and videos with your friends, and to make some new friends along the way. It's also a great way to express ideas and let others know what you think about Mormon Transhumanism.

The Mormon Transhumanist Association seeks to promote awareness, particularly among Mormons, of opportunities and risks associated with advances in science and technology. To that end, the association has begun to aggregate blogs that cover both Mormonism and science or technology. You can view the aggregation here [Jan 2009]:

The Mormon Transhumanist Association congratulates and expresses support for James Clement, who has been appointed Executive Director of the World Transhumanist Association. The press release from the World Transhumanist Association follows.

TransVision 2007, the international conference of the World Transhumanist Association, will be held in Chicago, 23-26 July 2007.

The Mormon Transhumanist Association will present at the Sunstone Symposium in Salt Lake City on Friday 10 August 2007 at 10AM in the Salt Lake Sheraton City Centre Hotel.

Panel PRACTICAL FAITH IN PROPHETIC VISION

Abstract

As announced previously on this site, the March 2007 edition of Sunstone magazine featured as its cover article: "Transfiguration: Parallels and Complements between Mormonism and Transhumanism". This article was written by members of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, and is intended primarily for a Mormon audience. It presents some basic Transhumanist ideas about the future and compares them to Mormon scripture and tradition.