Редактирование: Amon Twyman

[[File:AmonTwyman.png|200px|thumb|right|Amon Twyman]]
'''Dr Mathew Amon Twyman''' (aka. M. Amon Twyman, Mathew Twyman, Amon Zero, Amon Kalkin, Asterion Blackstar and Ámon Ásentír) is an established UK based transhumanist, philosopher and consultant, with involvement in a number of projects and initiatives.

Born in New Zealand, he moved to the UK in the early 2000's. From 2004 he was a member of futurist-punk band [http://xykogen.com/ Xykogen], with a stage name of ''Amon Zero''. In this period he began his involvement with the [[UK Transhumanist Association]].

== Academia ==

He is trained in cognitive science with experimental psychological research into self-insight conducted at UK and New Zealand universities. He holds positions as a visiting researcher at UCL, and affiliate scholar<ref>[http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/bio/twyman/ IEET Affiliate Scholar]</ref> at the [[IEET]].

== Transhumanism ==

As ''Amon Kalkin'' he established himself with a number of transhumanist and futurist communities, including co-founding [[Zero State]] with [[Dirk Bruere]] in 2012. 

Returning to the use of Amon Twyman around 2013 , he founded the [[Institute for Social Futurism]] and [[Wave|Wave movement]] in the coming years as vehicles to develop transhumanist political philosophy and connect with like minded organisations respectively. In early 2014 he would be involved in the formation of the [[H+ Council]] on [[Facebook]].

In late 2014 he would be instrumental in the founding and [http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-first-transhumanist-to-run-for-uk-office later leading] of the [[Transhumanist Party (UK)]] to present.

Since its formation in early 2015, he headed up the [[Transhumanist Party Global]] initiative to coordinate international political party activities, until resigning the role in November 2016.

In February 2017 Amon adopted the new name ''Amon Asentir''.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/amon.asentir Facebook profile]</ref>  

In 2018 moved to Germany amid personal issues.

== External links ==
* http://socialfuturism.net/what-is-social-futurism/dr-m-amon-twyman/ - Personal bio on socialfuturism.net
[[Category:Transhumanists]]
[[Category:British transhumanists]]
[[Category:New Zealand transhumanists]]

== References==

[[Category:IEET]]
[[Category: Zero State]]