Archive 2009
This is an archive of articles that Lincoln Cannon published in 2009. Monthly archives for January 2009, February 2009, March 2009, April 2009, May 2009, August 2009, September 2009, October 2009, November 2009, and December 2009 are 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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Theological Implications of Military Simulations
Christian Schumann-Curtis dropped me a note to point out an article on Slate, which reports that the United States Department ...
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Is God a Subtle Singleton?
In a short paper entitled “What is a Singleton?”, Nick Bostrom defines “singleton” as a world order with a single ...
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President Barack Obama, Technophile-in-Chief
Today, the United States of America celebrated the inauguration of President Barack Obama. While we may each identify various reasons ...
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Non-Superlative Religious Ideologies
Absolutely nothing if not sublimely eloquent, Dale Carrico criticizes transhumanism as necessarily superlative – depending on exaggerations, absolutes, extremes, determinisms, ...
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Christian Duty Includes Overcoming Aging and Death
Mormons almost universally acknowledge that we have a moral obligation and capacity to participate in the work of God, to ...
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A Technical Interpretation of Mormon Physics
This is a transcript of my presentation at the Mormonism Engineering conference at Claremont Graduate University on 7 March 2009. ...
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Happy Easter
Each night, Christ is willingly wounded for our sins, hammered to the cross with fresh nails from the eternal conflict ...
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Practicing Atonement
This is a transcript of a talk I gave to my local Mormon congregation on the subject of the Atonement ...
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Arbitrary Interpretations of Memes
Susan Blackmore gave the following TED Talk on memes in February 2008. I agree with her application of the evolution ...
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Shelly Kagan on Philosophy of Life and Death
I’ve begun watching Shelly Kagan’s lectures on the “Philosophy of Life and Death” via Academic Earth, which links to thousands ...
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Shelly Kagan on the Nature of Persons
In this lecture, Shelly Kagan talks about life and death, as well as persons, in black-and-white terms. However, are there ...
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Bednar Suggests Spirit is Information
At a recent LDS Church meeting for young adults, Elder David A Bednar commented on technology, and implied that spirit ...
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Should you take resveratrol to live longer?
A couple months ago, my wife and I started taking resveratrol, a dietary supplement that appears to be effecting significantly ...
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Science and Technology Are NOT Beyond the Mark
Some have criticized Mormon Transhumanists, or even scientific- and technologically-leaning Mormons generally, as “looking beyond the mark” and not relying ...
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Shelly Kagan on the Existence of the Soul
In his third lecture on the philosophy of life and death, Shelly Kagan begins presenting and refuting arguments for the ...
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Our Mormon (Transhumanist) Future
Slate Magazine recently featured a series of articles investigating the question, “How Is America Going To End?” One of the ...
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Hubble's Deep View of the Many Heavens
A friend directed me to this video that shows the results of pointing the Hubble telescope at an apparently empty ...
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If that's God, I'm an atheist too.
Religion is a controversial topic among transhumanists. Although the majority identify as atheists and agnostics, a substantial minority find transhumanism ...
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All going to hell?
While listening to the LDS Church General Conference today, I was reminded by one of the speakers that the world ...
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We Should Resurrect the Dead
In Sunday School today, we discussed Mormon ideas and doctrines related to the salvation of the dead. The focus, as ...
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Dan Dennett and Thoughts for an Atheist Friend
Dan Dennett is among my favorite atheists. I imagine some may not think that much of a compliment, coming from ...
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The Gift of Mobility
Who would have guessed that the LDS Church has been providing charitable funding for prosthetics? This is a welcome discovery, ...
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Church Supports Nondiscrimination Ordinances
Wow! This is strange. I just received this press release from the LDS Church in my news reader. However, the ...
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The Cost of Death
Last night, 60 Minutes ran a segment on the cost of dying. The segment identifies various economic and social costs ...
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Music and Speech Are Based on Human Biology
No surprise to learn that neuroscientists at Duke University have found evidence that popular music can be predicted based on ...
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Mormons Use Technology to Reach Millions
A well-meaning anonymous fellow Mormon once chastised me, encouraging more focus on the powers of prayer and priesthood and less ...
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Mythology as Atonement
While listening to speakers at church today, I considered my internal reactions to the various ideas and feelings expressed. At ...
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Boom! Hok! A Monkey Language Is Deciphered
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” This passage of ...
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Mega-flood filled the Mediterranean in months
Despite the clamor of Bible literalists, there is not objective evidence that a worldwide flood occurred a few thousand years ...
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That Random Coin Toss? Not So Random After All
Can our thoughts, meditation, and prayers change the world? Of course, for starters, they can change the way we speak ...