Archive 2012
This is an archive of articles that Lincoln Cannon published in 2012. Monthly archives for January 2012, February 2012, March 2012, April 2012, May 2012, June 2012, July 2012, August 2012, September 2012, October 2012, November 2012, and December 2012 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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Deification Banned "By Common Consent"
3 January 2012 11:48pm - If I were to write this post again now, it would be titled and focused ...
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John 3: 16 from a Mormon Perspective
Sports news media and google searchers are presently giving the Biblical passage at John 3: 16 a lot of attention ...
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Turn Back the Doomsday Clock
The Doomsday Clock has moved a minute closer to midnight. It’s managed by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who ...
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Dyson Spheres, Von Neumann Probes, and Fermi Paradox
Scientists Anders Sandberg and Stuart Armstrong are working on a paper that explores the relation between theoretical engineering capacities and ...
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From Following Christ to Being Christ
In conversation with a friend today, he commented that Paul in the New Testament seems to tell us to leave ...
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Parallels and Convergences
I’m pleased to announce that Parallels and Convergences: Mormon Thought and Engineering Vision is now available for purchase. In 2009, ...
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Teaching Teenagers to Value Sex without Sexism
I have three sons that I love dearly, and I care about their education in all areas, including sexuality. I ...
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A Strenuous Mood for Transhumanism on Mormon Matters
This week, I was a guest on the Mormon Matters podcast, hosted by my friend Dan Wotherspoon. I joined Dan, ...
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Thoughts for a Mormon Friend in Religious Crisis
A friend (who knows I’m writing this, but whose name will remain undisclosed) approached me today with a list of ...
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92 Thoughts from April 2012 General Conference
Over the last couple days, I watched an online stream of the April 2012 General Conference of The Church of ...
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Information Technology for the Work of God
Mormons typically understand the work of God to be that of bringing about human immortality and eternal life, reflecting words ...
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Becoming God Can Be Cruel and Irrational
“God is cruel,” says Hank Pellissier, managing director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology. Here are my thoughts ...
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Imagine a 1970 Journal Entry on Blacks and Priesthood
In 1978, the LDS Church extended priesthood to blacks. Prior to that time, some Mormons doubted the divinity of the ...
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How strong are constraints on intelligent purpose?
In “The Superintelligent Will: Motivations and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents,” Nick Bostrom argues briefly for the idea that ...
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Should you persuade me of your ideology?
Should we attempt to persuade each other of our ideologies? Some of us avoid proselyting. Others, such as Mormons, heartily ...
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A Mormon View of the Judeo-Christian Creation Story
I recently read news of a creationist museum using billboards featuring cartoon dinosaurs. Yes. That’s religious dinosaurs using cartoon dinosaurs ...
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Post-Secularism and the Resurrecting God
God is dead, proclaimed Nietzsche. He was right and wrong. Following their God, traditional forms of religion have been dying, ...
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Humanistic Mormonism
Several friends have asked for my opinion on Humanistic Mormonism, consequent to hearing about the Society for Humanistic Mormonism. As ...
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The Consolation
At the recent 2012 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, I presented a paper entitled “The Consolation: An Adaptation of ...
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Evolving Gods and Richard Dawkins
As mentioned before, I’ve repeatedly found inspiration in Richard Dawkins, despite an important difference between us: he’s a devout atheist, ...
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100 Thoughts from October 2012 General Conference
This weekend, I watched an online stream of the October 2012 General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of ...
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Mormonism Mandates Transhumanism
If you’re a Mormon, you should be a Transhumanist. That’s my contention. I’ve suggested before that “Mormon Transhumanist” is not ...
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The Altruist God of an Egoist Atheist
Think of an egoist atheist. What comes to mind? Here’s what doesn’t come to mind: trust in an altruistic god-like ...
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Merit Medical in InformationWeek Top Tech Innovators
As the Director of Sales & Marketing Technology at Merit, I’m proud to announce that Merit Medical was ranked 195 ...
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Letter to a Seminary Teacher on Human Evolution
Dear brother, I’m the father of one of your seminary students. He mentioned to me that a student asked about ...
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As One that Hath a Familiar Spirit
If you are familiar with the Book of Mormon and the King James translation of the Bible then you know ...
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Comparison of the First Book of Nephi to the Bible
Available now is my computed comparison of the First Book of Nephi to the Bible, consisting of 58 pages of ...
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Comparison of the Second Book of Nephi to the Bible
Available now is my computed comparison of the Second Book of Nephi to the Bible, consisting of 157 pages of ...
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Would it be moral to create a world like ours?
I trust our world was created by God, a radically compassionate posthumanity. After expressing this trust recently on the Singularity ...