Talk given at at the Transhumanism and Spirituality Conference 2010. http://www.transhumanism-spirituality.org/ Abstract: Following the Turing-Church conjecture, minds can be uploaded from biological brains to other computational substrates. Mind uploading research may achieve practical results within decades. Given the technology, humans may live indefinitely, colonizing the universe, and resurrecting the dead by "copying them to the future". Perhaps they will create synthetic realities inhabited by sentient minds; perhaps we are in a synthetic reality. These considerations parallel the tenets of many religions. The Turing Church will be a meta-religion, without central doctrine, characterized by common interest in the promised land where science and religion meet, science becomes religion, and religion becomes science.

1. The Cosmic Visions of the Turing Church Transhumanism and Spirituality Conference 2010 Giulio Prisco - giulio@gmail.com