The Turing Church Online Workshop 2 was held on Sunday, December 11, 2011, with a format similar to the Turing Church Online Workshop 1 on November 20, 2010.

The Workshop explored transhumanist spirituality and “Religion 2.0″, the convergence of science and religion, highly imaginative future science and technologies for resurrection, emerging science and technologies for immortality, social and memetic engineering.



Click here for a summary of the talks

Click here for the full video coverage of the Workshop

Speakers, morning session, 9am PST to noon PST:
-- Giulio Prisco, author of Engineering Transcendence
-- James Hughes, author of Citizen Cyborg and Problems of Transhumanism: Atheism vs. Naturalist Theologies
-- Martine Rothblatt, Terasem, author of Mindfiles, Mindware and Mindclones
-- Frank Tipler, author of The Physics of Immortality and The Physics of Christianity
-- Remi Sussan, author of Les utopies posthumaines

Speakers, afternoon session, 1pm PST to 4pm PST
-- Lincoln Cannon, Mormon Transhumanist Association, author of The New God Argument
-- Brent Allsop
-- Dan Massey (see also Transreligion - An Inspirational Framework for Transgender Transhumans)
-- Mike Perry, author of Forever for All
-- Andrew Warner

Speakers (pre-recorded videos)
-- Fred and Linda Chamberlain (see also the Truths of Terasem Podcasts)
-- Ben Goertzel, author of A Cosmist Manifesto

The technical implementation of the Workshop was managed by teleXLR8 using the OpenQwaq VR technology. teleXLR8, a telepresence community for cultural acceleration, produces online events, featuring first class content and speakers, using the open source OpenQwaq, the best technology for e-learning and collaboration in an online 3D environment.