Archive 2011
This is an archive of articles that Lincoln Cannon published in 2011. Monthly archives for January 2011, February 2011, March 2011, April 2011, May 2011, June 2011, July 2011, August 2011, October 2011, November 2011, and December 2011 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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"Look!" and Live: Meditation on 3 Nephi 28
I wrote a short fictional/exegetical article entitled “‘Look!’ and Live: Meditation on 3 Nephi 28” for the December 2010 issue ...
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Jesus doesn't like our religious arrogance
Christians purportedly look to Jesus as the principal example of the kind of person we should be. In some cases, ...
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Gods of suffering and oppression
In response to the New God Argument, an anonymous commenter requested my thoughts on the following David Pearce quote. David ...
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Response to Cris Putnam on Christian Transhumanism
This is a response to a critique of Christian Transhumanism from Cris Putnam. Cris summarizes his critique as follows: “… ...
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More Christian Fundamentalism from Cris Putnam
In my last blog post, I responded to Cris Putnam’s criticism of Christian Transhumanism. He has now responded to me. ...
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Religious Arrogance
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem and entered the temple courts. He ...
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What is Transhumanism?
Some people don’t like ideological labels. They don’t like their perspectives being categorized, for whatever reason, good or bad. I’m ...
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2001 and 2010 in 2011
2011 is a good year to watch “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “2010: The Year We Make Contact” for the ...
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You Don't Intuit Accelerating Technological Change
Regularly, in both professional and personal settings, I have the opportunity to discuss accelerating technological change. For the most part, ...
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Transhumanist Stories for the Child in Each of Us
In her article entitled “Transhumanism and Children”, Nikki Olson touches on the greatest weakness of secular transhumanism: poor esthetics. As ...
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Technological Singularity as Religious Ideology
Matthew Bailey writes for H+ Magazine, provoking attention with the title “The Technological Singularity as Religious Ideology” and then quickly ...
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Sam Harris Asks, Should we be Mormons in the Matrix?
In a recent post to his blog, Sam Harris asks, “Should we be Mormons in the Matrix?” Sam is (in)famous ...
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Capital One owes me $1500
I identify as a libertarian. Unfortunately, though, most persons understand “libertarian” only in the corporatist right-libertarian sense, with which I ...
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Singularity University FutureMed, here I come!
I’m excited to tell you that I’ll be attending the FutureMed executive program of Singularity University at NASA Ames Research ...
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Living in an undecidable halting problem of evil?
For some computer programs, we can know in advance how they will run, when they will stop, and what results ...
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May 21st Judgment Day
Judgment day is in ten days, on 21 May 2011, according to a group of Christian fundamentalists that run the ...
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145 Highlights from FutureMed Singularity University
The Singularity University FutureMed executive program was a fun and fast-paced opportunity to refresh knowledge and connect with some of ...
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21 May 2011 is Mercy Day
I’m pretty sure Harold Camping’s judgment day rapture isn’t happening. No. I’m not basing that on the fact that I’m ...
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Singularity Institute Summit in Salt Lake City
Several friends and I had the opportunity to attend the Singularity Summit in Salt Lake City last Saturday. The event ...
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Predicting the weather near Kolob
While camping in Zion National Park last week, some friends and I discussed prediction capacities and limitations, considering cases such ...
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Speculating Around Speculative Singularity Roadblocks
In his book Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku outlines six roadblocks to the Singularity. The roadblocks are at least ...
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The Singularity Doesn't Require Understanding
Neuroscientist David Linden challenges the timeline (but not the feasibility) of Ray Kurzweil’s predictions, and argues that “The Singularity is ...
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Why Should Theists Learn How to Resurrect the Dead?
On the “Mormon Transhumanist Association Response” website, Vblogger, who is a Mormon, questions why Mormon Transhumanists think we should try ...
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Ecumenical Mormonism
The Mormonism that has inspired me from childhood is the ecumenical Mormonism. It doesn’t pretend to exclusive access to God. ...
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Jesus Christ and Atonement in Knowledge and Goodness
On the Mormon Transhumanist Association Response blog, Vblogger asks how the pursuit of science, if not limited, can be reconciled ...
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Questions about God from "Closer to Truth"
I’ve been watching the “Closer to Truth” videos on the subject of God. Thanks to Matthew Price for pointing them ...
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Quantum Archeology and the Resurrected You
At a recent conference on transhumanism and spirituality, I spoke on Transfigurism and proposed the following thought experiment: Imagine a ...
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Is postgenderism desirable?
Below are thoughts I composed some time ago, as I read the introduction to “Postgenderism: Beyond the Gender Binary” by ...
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Dynamic Faith in Pancritical Rationalism
In the comments on an H+ Magazine article on “Why Christianity and Transhumanism are not Enemies,” Max More disagreed with ...
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The Singularity Doesn't Need Paul Allen to Understand
Like others before him, Paul Allen says that the “singularity is not near.” We will not anytime soon engineer computers ...
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Mormons, Politics and Extra Ordinaries
Thanks to Hank Pellissier for the opportunity to share my views on the subject of Mormonism and politics, and for ...
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Less child sexual abuse in our better world
It is common, particularly in conservative circles, to hear that the world is becoming worse. However, the evidence indicates that ...
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What are you creating? Heaven or Hell
Each morning as I merge on to the freeway to commute to work, I pass a billboard that asks me, ...
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The Consolation at Turing Church Workshop 2011
This is a transcript of my talk at the Turing Church Workshop 2011, today. The text is an early (and ...