Archive March 2008
This is an archive of articles that Lincoln Cannon published in March 2008. An annual archive for 2008 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 Lincoln has published on any of his websites.
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The Universe IS the Neohuman
I’ve mentioned before, but want to make more explicit here, the idea that there seems to be no reason to distinguish between a computed world and the neohuman (or posthuman) computing it. As the Simulation Argument goes, if ever we create a significant number of computed worlds then we are ... -
I Am a Child of God
I just finished putting my three-year-old son to bed. When first entering his bedroom, I couldn’t see him. Knowing, though, that he likes to hide, I wondered aloud whether he was hiding. There was no sound. It was almost too quiet. But I thought I’d look behind the large chair ... -
Final Message from Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction writer and science popularizer, died in Sri Lanka earlier this week. He leaves with us an extraordinary legacy of entertainment and inspiration. In Clarke’s final public message, available for you to view online, he mentioned that the power of our technology does not displace the ... -
A Non-Superlative Disagreement on Human Finitude
Dale Carrico, a lecturer in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California Berkeley, is an intelligent and articulate antagonist of Transhumanism. He interacts regularly with some influential Transhumanists, and is well acquainted with the ideology – better acquainted than any other antagonist that I know of. I’ve recently ... -
Atheists All: Brent, Karl, Dale, and I
Brent Allsop, a director of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, describes himself as a Mormon atheist. You may be wondering (along with Aubrey de Grey, I’ve been told) whether that’s some kind of joke. Well, no. It’s not a joke. Brent is entirely serious about both his Mormonism and his atheism. ...