Technological Resurrection
Technological resurrection is the use of technology to restore a dead person to life. Technologies include medical resuscitation techniques, preservation processes such as genealogy and cryonics, and speculative future capabilities like brain emulation and quantum archeology. The use of technology is not mutually exclusive with faith in God, as illustrated by theists who esteem technology to be an expression of God's grace or a means by which God works through humanity.
This is a list of articles that Lincoln Cannon has written about technological resurrection. 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.
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How to Raise the Dead
This is an edited transcript of my presentation at the 2019 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association. At the conference ...
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Cryonics and Transhumanism Are Hope for Life
Infamously, cryonics is in the news again. The Brain Preservation Foundation announced that a research group has successfully preserved a ...
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Why Is Resurrection Necessary?
“Why is resurrection necessary in the plan of salvation?” A friend asked me this question at church. In the Mormon ...
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Mormon Bodies and Mind Uploading
Mormonism is relatively unique among world religions in its regard for bodies. Where most major religions consider bodies to be ...
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7 Reasons Cryonics Is Compatible with Mormonism
Occasionally I hear (or hear of) Mormons contending that cryonics (low-temperature preservation of a legally-dead body for resuscitation when new ...
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Are We Living in a Family History Simulation?
Last time I posted, we imagined that one of the things we might do with vast computing resources in the ...
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Future Technology for Family History Simulations
Technology, and particularly computing, is essential to family history. Without it, we could still tell family stories to our children. ...
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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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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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A Missionary's Practical Faith in Resurrection
Today, while looking through old journal entries, I came across the following passage, written when I was a missionary for ...
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Resurrection is the Natural Consequence of Genealogy
Will universal resurrection of the dead be the natural consequence of increasingly detailed genealogical work? Do the thought experiment: Historian ...
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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 ...