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, including social media.
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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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 ...