Archive August 2007
This is an archive of articles that Lincoln Cannon published in August 2007. An annual archive for 2007 is available. And a full archive of all articles that Lincoln has published since 2005 is also available. You may also search for articles and other content that's available on any of Lincoln's websites.
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More Blessed are the Disciples of Life
Today, I came across the blog of Paul Toscano. His relationship with Mormonism is difficult to describe and beyond the ...
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"The Language of God" Influencing Mormon Perspectives
Today at dinner, my mother mentioned that she had recently purchased a book by geneticist (and head of the Human ...
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Powerful Mormon Myths for the Modern World
Dave Banack, writing for Times and Seasons, asks: What sort of mythology would develop or result from the modern world ...
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The Work of Immortality is Not Complete
Bill Muehlenberg, in his CultureWatch blog, recently wrote about “The First Church of Transhumanism”. After providing a summary of his ...
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Eternal Recurrence of Our Children
Adam Greenwood at Times and Seasons speculates regarding millennial children. He wonders whether we might have future opportunities to raise ...
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I'm Insane, Blake Ostler Tells Me
While at the recent symposium organized by the Sunstone Education Foundation in Salt Lake City, I attended a presentation by ...
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Simulation Argument and Synthetic Worlds without End
The Simulation Argument has been getting a lot of attention since being referenced by the New York Times. Writing for ...
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Life Emerging from Eternal Matter
When I think about the origins of life in our time and space, I tend toward a materialistic animism. Matter ...
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The Accelerating Exponent of Kurzweil's Law
Kurzweil’s Law (generalizing from Moore’s Law) observes that technology changes exponentially as new technologies contribute toward increasing the rate of ...
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Faithful Science
Jared, a guest blogger at By Common Consent, wonders what “Faithful Science” would look like and how it would be ...
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Church Internet Coordinator on Technology for Good
Ronald Schwendiman is the coordinator for the worldwide Internet activities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He ...
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Independent Mormon Transhumanists
I’ve been wondering how many independent Mormon Transhumanists are out there, unaware of or uninterested in groups like the Mormon ...
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Why would God create worlds?
Put another way, why would neohumans run detailed world simulations? Not being neohumans ourselves, we can only speculate. However, it ...