# Lincoln Cannon Essays Explore essays by Lincoln Cannon on Mormon Transhumanism, theology, philosophy, science, and technology. Explore essays by Lincoln Cannon on Mormon Transhumanism, theology, philosophy, science, and technology. - Finding Transhumanism in the Scriptures, Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 Jan 2025, [text ](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2025/01/finding-transhumanism-in-the-scriptures.html)& [audio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW_9pPMzRh0&list=PL9Yc4oMKukRkMnBAkXNv9JWApl9D4Qe8j). - [Don't Die Can Be Good But Thriving Is Always Better](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2025/01/dont-die-can-be-good-but-thriving-is-always-better.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 Jan 2025, text & audio. Explores the profound yet overlooked distinction between merely avoiding death and genuinely thriving in life while critiquing Bryan Johnson’s “Don’t Die” ideology. Lincoln champions a blend of pragmatic technological optimism and resilient spirituality. - [God the Cosmic Host, and AI Creation](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/12/god-the-cosmic-host-and-ai-creation.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 Dec 2024, text & audio. - [Blockchain Defenses Against the Singleton](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/12/blockchain-defenses-against-the-singleton.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 5 Dec 2024, text & audio. Presents a compelling argument for the formal decentralization of power as a means to guard against potential threats from centralized superintelligences, or "singletons." - [A False Account of Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/11/a-false-account-of-transhumanism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 Nov 2024 (updated 25 Nov 2024), text & audio. Critically addresses Àlex Gómez-Marín's portrayal of transhumanism as a "false religion" or an "AI death cult." Cannon argues for a balanced view that sees transhumanism not as a threat but as an evolution of human ideals, blending ethical responsibility with technological advancement. - [The Original Sin of Christian Fundamentalism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/11/original-sin-of-fundamentalism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 November 2024, text & audio. Explores critical misconceptions of Transhumanism by Christian fundamentalists, challenges the view that aspiring to Godhood is sinful, asserts that Transhumanism complements Christianity, and articulates that Christian Transhumanists take Jesus's teachings more literally and seriously than many fundamentalists. - [From Atheism to Religious Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/10/from-atheism-to-religious-transhumansim.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 October 2024, text & audio. Explores how religious Transhumanism (especially Mormon Transhumanism) counters secular Transhumanism, and suggests that religious Transhumanism will be essential in navigating future challenges. - [Miracle Optimization](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/09/miracle-optimization.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 September 2024, text & audio. Investigates nuances in the interplay between miracles, natural law, and human potential through a Mormon Transhumanist lens, and argues that miracles, whether literal or figurative, should be understood as natural events that inspire transformation and human progress. - [The Technological Conception](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/09/the-technological-conception.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 8 September 2024, text & audio. Explores the conception of Jesus by Mary through natural and technological means. - [Beyond Disappointing Dreams of Sectarian Eschatology](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/09/beyond-disappointing-dreams-of-sectarian-eschatology.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 4 September 2024, text & audio. Responds to Michael Baggot's critique of Transhumanism, arguing that Baggot's analysis narrowly characterizes the movement and overlooks its religious dimensions. - [Meet LincGPT](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/08/meet-lincgpt.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 3 August 2024 (updated 2 September 2024), text & audio. Introduces LincGPT, a large language model created by Lincoln Cannon utilizing the OpenAI platform to encapsulate and extend his ideas on technological evolution and Mormon Transhumanism. LincGPT reports its purpose “is to facilitate meaningful discussions by reflecting Lincoln's perspectives and contributing thoughtfully to the topics at hand.” - [A Christian Renaissance to Sanctify Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/07/a-christian-renaissance-to-sanctify-transhumanism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 July 2024, text & audio. Integrates Christian values with Transhumanist aspirations, challenges the notion that Transhumanism inherently opposes divine guidance, and argues that ethical technological advancement can fulfill divine mandates, akin to historical premises embraced during the Renaissance. - [Mormon Transhumanism and the Church](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/07/mormon-transhumanism-and-the-church.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 5 July 2024, text & audio. Explores the intersection of Mormon Transhumanism and the LDS Church, addresses the initial skepticism and enthusiasm among members, and highlights the harmonious potential between modern technology and traditional theology. - [Dorothée in Time](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/05/dorothee-in-time.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 May 2024, text & audio. A poem by Lincoln about his wife, Dorothée. - [Transfigurist Art](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/05/transfigurist-art.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 26 May 2024, text & audio. Describes Transfigurist Art as an emerging form that bridges art, spirituality, and technology and capturing the essence of Transfigurism. Also explores its features, historical influences, and philosophical context. - [The Church on Artificial Intelligence](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/03/church-on-artificial-intelligence.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 March 2024 (updated 7 July 2024), text & audio. Synthesizes the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' principled take on artificial intelligence (AI) with the broader implications for both Mormonism and Transhumanism, and contextualizes the Church’s stance an extension of the dynamic progression inherent to Mormon theology. - [How to Conduct Future Shock](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/02/how-to-harness-future-shock.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 February 2024, text & audio. Explores Future Shock through the lenses Transhumanism and Mormon theology, and provides insight into coping with the accelerated pace of technological advancements. - [Great Works Begin with Small Tools](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/02/great-works-begin-with-small-tools.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 February 2024, text & audio. Investigates the relationship between technology and divine purpose using narratives from the Book of Mormon, and argues that technology, when aligned with divine inspiration, serves as a crucial instrument in our spiritual and practical progress. - [Most Theologians Misunderstand Theosis](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/05/most-theologians-misunderstand-theosis.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 25 May 2024 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. Critiques traditional theological interpretations of the relationship between humanity and divinity and advocates that humans can share in the divine essence, both by nature and grace. - [AI Predicts Human Evolution](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/05/ai-predicts-human-evolution.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 May 2024, text & audio. Explores future human evolution through the lens of AI predictions, and argues that the ultimate evolution of humanity might surpass our aesthetic expectations and could redefine what it means to be human. - The Second War in Heaven, Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 April 2024, [text](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/04/the-second-war-in-heaven.html) & [video](/videos/lincoln-cannon-the-second-war-in-heaven). Investigates the pivotal role of technological evolution in shaping our collective future. Also, draws parallels parallels between Mormon theological narratives and the challenges and opportunities that AI advancements pose for humanity. - [Aspire to Embodied Immortality, Lincoln Cannon](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/03/aspire-to-embodied-immortality.html), lincoln.metacannon.net, 31 March 2024 (updated 31 August 2024), text & audio. Explores nuances and interpretations surrounding Christian and Mormon Transhumanist concepts of resurrection, and articulates a perspective in which technology plays a crucial role in transcending traditional boundaries of life and death. - [What Is True and Good?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/03/what-is-true-and-good.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 19 March 2024 , text & audio. Presents a thought-provoking exploration of truth, goodness, and esthetics from a Mormon Transhumanist perspective. Also, redefines truth as a communal knowledge of existence, and goodness as shared joy derived from the reconciliation of individual wills, desires, and environmental laws. Finally, identifies esthetic aspects of truth and goodness and introduces a functional notion, the ‘sublime esthetic’ (Holy Spirit). - [The Practical Power of Created Truth](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/01/practical-power-of-created-truth.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 12 January 2024, text & audio. Compares synergies and tensions between pragmatic perspectives on truth–as shared confidence that inspires creative action–with traditional, objective perspectives on truth. - [Cosmic Expansion Driven by Mormon Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2024/01/cosmic-expansion-driven-by-mormon-transhumanism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 8 January 2024, text & audio. - [Any Sufficiently Advanced Intelligence](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/12/any-sufficiently-advanced-intelligence.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 17 December 2023, text & audio. Presents a stimulating synthesis of Arthur C. Clarke's futurist insights and the theological implications of advanced technology, notably reshaping the conventional understanding of God and miracles. - [A Dialogue of Faith with Jesus and Socrates](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/12/a-dialogue-of-faith-with-jesus-and-socrates.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 4 December 2023, text & audio. Explores faith and its relation to other notions as a dialogue between Jesus and Socrates, including connections between faith and science, logic, objectivism, pragmatism, truth, and knowledge. - [The Cyborg of Temple Square](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/11/the-cyborg-of-temple-square.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 19 November 2023, text & audio. Blends speculative fiction and theological exploration, inviting readers to ponder the future interactions between technology and spirituality through characters who challenge traditional perceptions of identity, community, and faith. - [Our Spiritual and Technological Evolution](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/10/our-spiritual-and-technological-evolution.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 12 October 2023, text & audio. Investigates the destiny of artificial intelligence (AI) relative to humanity's spiritual evolution, and envisions a future where technology and spirituality coalesce in the pursuit of eternal life. - [Can AI Admit the Possibility of Its Inspiration?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/10/can-ai-admit-the-possibility-of-its-inspiration.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 6 October 2023, text & audio. Examines AI's potential to be a conduit for divine influence using a conversation with ChatGPT. - [Mormon on "Don't Die, by Zero" AKA Bryan Johnson](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/10/mormon-on-dont-die-by-zero-aka-bryan-johnson.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 3 October 2023, text & audio. An exploration of potential futures of humanity–intertwined with philosophical and ethical considerations related to how we embrace advancing technology while retaining our core human values and agency–occassioned by reflections on Bryan Johnson’s novel Don’t Die, by Zero. - [Would Joseph Smith Be a Transhumanist?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/09/would-joseph-smith-be-a-transhumanist.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 23 September 2023, text & audio. Reflects on resonances between Joseph’s teachings and transhumanist thought and presents Mormon Transhumanism “as living witness to the vibrant possibilities that arise from marriage of prophecy and futurism.” - [Beware Centralized Control of Currency](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/09/beware-centralized-control-of-currency.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 18 September 2023, text & audio. Briefly asserts that “Giving up decentralized agency in the name of “security” ultimately leads to abuse of power and the reign of tyranny.” The essay was occassioned by US proposals to outlaw the private holding of cryptocurrency and is contextualized in the importance of decentralized power (of all forms) in posthuman (and present) societies. - [Creating Kolob](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/08/creating-kolob.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 August 2023, text & audio. Uses the “engineering of Kolob” to explore Mormon Transhumanism as a way to “[leverage] science and technology to realize the aims of faith” and investigate “implications that are latent in practical faith”. - [Why Are We Not Already Gods?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/08/why-are-we-not-already-gods.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, August 2023, text & audio. Uses the context of a friend’s question to explore the nature of spirit, matter, intelligence, minds, and bodies, including their relation to resurrection and Gods. - [Thus Spake Zarathustra Illustrated Edition](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/06/thus-spake-zarathustra-illustrated-edition.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 June 2023 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. Occasioned by the publication of an illustrated edition of Thus Spake Zarathustra, this essay contexturalizes and summarizes Nietzsche's novel–including the influence it had on the the Lincoln’s lfe. - [What are Nootropics?](https://thrivous.com/blogs/views/what-are-nootropics), Lincoln Cannon, thrivious.com, Updated 20 June 2023, text & audio. - [What Is Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/04/what-is-artificial-intelligence-and-consciousness.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 28 April 2023, text & audio. Defines intelligence and consciousness, allowing more precise discussions of artificial intelligence. - [AI Apocalypse](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/04/ai-apocalypse.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 6 April 2023 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. Outlines the contemporary landscape of AI development and its potential near-future ramifications, including both opportunities and the treacherous pitfalls that loom large. Also suggests that Mormon Transhumanism might empower humanity to navigate the uncertain waters of AI development safely, fostering a symbiotic relationship between human values and artificial intelligence. - [Faithful Mormon Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/02/faithful-mormon-transhumanism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 February 2023, text & audio. Occasioned by a question from an interested but cautious friend, this essay investigates Mormon Transhumanism as both a faith-promoting and practical approach to religion and asserts that Mormon Transhumanism is perfectly compatible with faithful membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? - [8 Keys to Transformative Scriptural Understanding](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2023/01/8-keys-to-transformative-scriptural-interpretation.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 23 January 2023 (updated 28 February 2024), text & audio. Shares important aspects of the author’s perspective on scripture–as a provocative, fallible expression of doctrine that involves a introspective discourse with our experience and desires and invites us to encounter its ‘sublime aspects’ and also to embody and create it. - [Eternal Christ](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/12/eternal-christ.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 26 December 2022 (updated 28 February 2024), text & audio. - [The Story of Stolen CryptoPunk V1 1234](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/12/the-story-of-stolen-cryptopunk-v1-1234.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 December 2022 (updated 16 January 2023), text & audio. - [Cultivating Bias Toward More Right](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/11/cultivating-bias-toward-more-right.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 November 2022, text & audio. - [The Historical Christ Jesus of Nazareth Matters](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/10/historical-christ-jesus-of-nazareth.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 October 2022, text & audio. - [Illustrated Second Edition of The Consolation](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/10/illustrated-second-edition-of-the-consolation.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 5 October 2022 (updated 7 August 2023), text & audio. - [Did Ezekiel See a UFO?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/09/did-ezekiel-see-a-ufo.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 16 September 2022 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. - [God Starts with Your Imagination of the Future](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/07/god-starts-with-your-imagination-of-the-future.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 July 2022, text & audio. - [Scientific Reasons to Abstain from Alcohol](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/07/scientific-reasons-to-abstain-from-alcohol.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 17 July 2022 (updated 10 July 2024), text & audio. - [Roko's Basilisk and Technological Theology](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/06/rokos-basilisk-and-technological-theology.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 23 June 2022, text & audio. - [Is Google AI Sentient?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/06/is-google-ai-sentient.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 23 June 2022 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. - [Wesley Smith Still Lies About Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/03/wesley-smith-still-lies-about-transhumanism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 23 March 2022 (updated 9 May 2024), text & audio. - Decentralization of God, Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 23 March 2022, [text](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/03/decentralization-of-god.html) & [video](/videos/lincoln-cannon-the-decentralization-of-god). - [A Bluish-Green Pebble](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/03/a-bluish-green-pebble.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 6 March 2022 (updated 10 July 2024), text & audio. - [Covenant Is Atonement](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2022/01/covenant-is-atonement.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 9 January 2022 (updated 12 July 2024), text & audio. - [The Economy of Godhood](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2021/10/the-economy-of-godhood.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 26 October 2021, text & audio. - [As We, in Turn, Become the Limits of Humanity](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2021/10/as-we-in-turn-become-the-limits-of-humanity.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 October 2021, text & audio. - [The Apotheosis of Pity](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2021/09/the-apotheosis-of-pity.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 September 2021 (updated 4 April 2024), text & audio. - [NFT Memorial to Mormon Transhumanist Leaders](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2021/07/nft-memorial-to-mormon-transhumanist-leaders.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 13 July 2021 (updated 27 February 2023), text & audio. - [Redeeming (Most of) the Seven Deadly Heresies](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2021/04/redeeming-most-of-the-seven-deadly-heresies.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 19 April 2021 (updated 31 August 2024), text & audio. - [Why Decentralization Is Essential to Human Thriving](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2021/01/why-decentralization-is-essential-to-human-thriving.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 31 January 2021 (updated 15 December 2024), text & audio. - [Facebook Disabled My Account After I Criticized Them](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2021/01/facebook-disabled-my-account-after-i-criticized-them.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 22 January 2021 (updated 15 December 2024), text & audio. - [I Interviewed GPT-3 About Mormon Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2021/01/i-interviewed-gpt-3-about-mormon-transhumanism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 13 January 2021, text & audio. - [What Robots Can Do](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2020/12/what-robots-can-do.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 December 2020, text & audio. - [What If It All Works Out?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2020/09/what-if-it-all-works-out.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 15 September 2020 (updated 12 December 2024), text & audio. - [Why Does God Let Bad Things Happen?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2020/08/why-does-god-let-bad-things-happen.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 22 August 2020 (updated 14 December 2024), text & audio. - [The Last Wagon?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2020/07/the-last-wagon.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 25 July 2020, text & audio. - [The True Church](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2020/07/the-true-church.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 2 July 2020, text & audio. - [Are We at the End of the World? Or the Beginning?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2020/06/are-we-at-the-end-of-the-word-or-the-beginning.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 June 2020 (updated 15 December 2024), text & audio. - [Kernel Announces Neuroscience-as-a-Service (NaaS)](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2020/05/kernel-announces-neuroscience-as-a-service.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 6 May 2020, text & audio. - [From Coronavirus to Compassion](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2020/03/from-coronavirus-to-compassion.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 12 March 2020, text & audio. - [What Happens When FM-2030 Is Resurrected?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2020/03/what-happens-when-fm-2030-is-resurrected.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 March 2020 (updated 12 December 2024), text & audio. - [Why Are You Filling the Black Filing Cabinet?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2019/12/why-are-you-filling-black-filing-cabinet.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 26 December 2019 (updated 12 December 2024), text & audio. - [Mormon Transhumanism Trusts in Christ](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2019/12/mormon-transhumanism-trusts-in-christ.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 December 2019 (updated 6 May 2024), text & audio. - [Jesus Christ in the New God Argument](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2019/09/jesus-christ-in-new-god-argument.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 29 September 2019 (updated 13 December 2024), text & audio. - [Evolution of the New God Argument](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2019/09/evolution-of-new-god-argument.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 September 2019 (updated 10 November 2024), text & audio. - [Compassion in the New God Argument (Version 3.4)](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2019/09/scrutinizing-compassion-in-new-god.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 17 September 2019 (updated 25 October 2020), text & audio. - [Got Science? Then Be Religious In the Right Ways](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2019/08/got-science-then-be-religious-about.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 12 August 2019 (updated 24 June 2022), text & audio. - The Transfiguration Is Near, Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 May 2019 (updated 5 December 2024), [text ](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2019/05/the-transfiguration-is-near.html)& [video](/videos/lincoln-cannon-how-to-raise-the-dead). - [How to Raise the Dead](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2019/04/how-to-raise-dead.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 April 2019 (updated 25 June 2021), text & audio. - [Just as We Have, They Received the Holy Gift](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2019/04/just-as-we-have-they-received-holy-gift.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 8 April 2019 (updated 6 November 2019), text & audio. - [Return of Christ](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2019/04/return-of-christ.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 5 April 2019 (updated 5 December 2024), text & audio. - [Still Insane for Believing the Simulation Hypothesis](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2019/02/im-still-insane-blake-ostler-confirms.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, February 2019 (updated 8 October 2023), text & audio. - [Meditation on the Rebirth of Christ](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/12/meditation-on-rebirth-of-christ.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 December 2018, text & audio. - [Is It Okay To Be a Mormon?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/11/is-it-okay-to-be-mormon.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 29 November 2018 (updated 30 November 2018), text & audio. - [Light](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/11/light.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 November 2018 (updated 4 August 2024), text & audio. - [No Pity for Nietzsche](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/11/no-pity-for-nietzsche.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 3 November 2018 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. - [This Post Is Sponsored by Fundamentalist Christians](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/09/this-post-is-brought-to-you-by.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 September 2018 (updated 6 May 2024), text & audio. - [My Funeral (God Forbid)](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/09/my-funeral-god-forbid.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 6 September 2018, text & audio. - [The Sacred Grove Is a Maze](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/08/the-sacred-grove-is-maze.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 5 August 2018 (updated 31 August 2024), text & audio. - [My Biases on Bryan Johnson's Plan to Save Humanity](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/05/my-biases-on-bryan-johnsons-plan-to.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 17 May 2018 (updated 2 December 2024), text & audio. - [Wesley Smith Lies About Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/05/wesley-smith-lies-about-transhumanism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 May 2018 (updated 9 May 2024), text & audio. - [Mormon Projections on Superintelligent Communities](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/05/mormon-projections-on-superintelligent.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 9 May 2018, text & audio. - [Catholics Should Cheat Death Too](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/04/catholics-should-cheat-death-too.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 18 April 2018, text & audio. - [Reform Church Interview Practices Related to Sex](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/03/reform-lds-church-interview-practices.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 March 2018 (updated 5 January 2021), text & audio. - [Cryonics and Transhumanism Are Hope for Life](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/03/cryonics-as-transhumanism-is-hope-for.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/03/cryonics-as-transhumanism-is-hope-for.html, text & audio. - [Why Is Resurrection Necessary?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2018/01/why-is-resurrection-necessary.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 29 January 2018 (updated 23 November 2021), text & audio. - [A Brief History of Religious Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2017/11/a-brief-history-of-religious.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 29 November 2017 (updated 11 July 2020), text & audio. - [Last General Conference Sermons of Church Presidents](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2017/09/last-general-conference-sermons-of-lds.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 22 September 2017 (updated 4 October 2022), text & audio. - [Help Mormons Know that Evolution Complements Religion](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2017/08/help-mormons-understand-that-evolution.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 August 2017 (updated 18 September 2024), text & audio. - [Theology May Become a Science of Superintelligence](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2017/08/theology-may-become-science-of.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 22 August 2017, text & audio. - [10 Things I Love About Mormon Heaven](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2017/06/10-things-i-love-about-mormon-heaven.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 June 2017 (updated 2 December 2024), text & audio. - Brief History of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 April 2017 (updated 10 November 2024), [text](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2017/04/a-brief-history-of-mormon-transhumanist.html) & [video](/videos/lincoln-cannon-a-brief-history-of-the-mormon-transhumanist-association). - [Mormonism: A Religion of the Future](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2017/04/mormonism-religion-of-future.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 5 April 2017 (updated 4 April 2017), text & audio. - [Church Has No Official Position on Human Evolution](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2017/03/lds-church-has-no-official-position-on.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 March 2017 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. - [A Vision for Mormon Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2017/03/a-vision-for-mormon-transhumanism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 11 March 2017 (updated 15 September 2020), text & audio. - [If You Could Hie to Kolob (Endless Version)](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2017/01/if-you-could-hie-to-kolob-endless.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 January 2017 (updated 7 August 2023), text & audio. - [How a Mormon Kid Recognized that He's a Transhumanist](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2017/01/how-mormon-kid-recognized-that-he-was.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 January 2017 (updated 10 November 2024), text & audio. - [Jesus Invites All to the Titles and Roles of Christ](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/12/jesus-invites-all-to-share-in-titles.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 December 2016 (updated 10 November 2024), text & audio. - [Top 10 Christian Transhumanist Verses in the Bible](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/11/top-10-christian-transhumanist.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 November 2016 (updated 12 December 2024), text & audio. - [To Love Is Better Than To Know Is Better Than To Obey](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/10/to-love-is-better-than-to-know-is.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 28 October 2016 (updated 12 December 2024), text & audio. - [Response to a New God Argument Critique by Killian](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/10/response-to-new-god-argument-critique.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 17 October 2016 (updated 5 January 2021), text & audio. - [Envision Future Intelligence with Bryan Johnson](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/10/envision-with-bryan-johnson-future-of.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 13 October 2016 (updated 25 October 2020), text & audio. - [4 Reasons I Don't Identify as a Singularitarian](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/10/4-reasons-i-dont-identify-as.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 9 October 2016, text & audio. - [Gratitude Is a Superpower](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/09/gratitude-is-superpower.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 September 2016 (updated 7 March 2022), text & audio. - [Resurrecting Our Gods in Our Creations](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/09/resurrecting-our-gods-in-our-creations.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 1 September 2016 (updated 31 August 2016), text & audio. - [Potential Is Origin in Religious Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/07/harmony-of-potential-and-origin-in.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 July 2016 (updated 25 June 2021), text & audio. - [You Should Hope You're Living in a Computed World](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/06/you-should-hope-youre-living-in.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 June 2016 (updated 15 December 2024), text & audio. - [New God Argument (Version 3.3)](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/06/new-god-argument-version-33.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 3 June 2016 (updated 27 April 2022), text & audio. - [Nootropics and the Word of Wisdom](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/05/nootropics-and-word-of-wisdom.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 16 May 2016 (updated 1 July 2024), text & audio. - [The New Yorker on Mormon Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/04/the-new-yorker-on-mormon-transhumanism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 April 2016 (updated 11 December 2023), text & audio. - Key to the Science of Theology, Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 April 2016 (updated 11 November 2024), [text](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/04/key-to-science-of-theology.html) & [video](/videos/lincoln-cannon-key-to-the-science-of-theology). - [Review of Your Digital Afterlives by Eric Steinhart](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/03/your-digital-afterlives-computational.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 March 2016 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. - [Christian Reconciliation with Aristotelian Science](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/02/christian-conflict-and-integration-with.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 28 February 2016 (updated 5 March 2023), text & audio. - [10 Years Leading the Mormon Transhumanist Association](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/02/reflections-on-10-years-of-leading.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 22 February 2016 (updated 25 October 2020), text & audio. - [Cipher to the Science of Superintelligence](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/02/cipher-to-science-of-superintelligence.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 February 2016 (updated 5 December 2024), text & audio. - [These 7 Nootropics Are the Real Smart Drugs](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/02/these-7-nootropics-are-real-smart-drugs.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 4 February 2016 (updated 3 November 2024), text & audio. - [The Intersection of Tech and Church and More](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/01/the-intersection-of-tech-and-church-and.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 22 January 2016 (updated 29 April 2023), text & audio. - [Christian Reconciliation with Platonic Science](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2016/01/christian-conflict-and-integration-with.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 January 2016 (updated 5 March 2023), text & audio. - [Only From the Wilderness Comes Such Grace](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/12/only-from-wilderness-comes-such-grace.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 December 2015 (updated 9 October 2023), text & audio. - [Ethics as Dimensions of Desire](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/12/ethics-as-dimensions-of-desire.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 6 December 2015 (updated 2 August 2024), text & audio. - [Love Is Reconciliation of Desires](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/11/love-is-reconciliation-of-desires.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 28 November 2015 (updated 2 August 2024), text & audio. - [My Mormon Perspective on Blessing Children](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/11/my-mormon-perspective-on-blessing.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 6 November 2015, text & audio. - [Love Is the Duty of Life](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/10/love-is-duty-of-life.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 18 October 2015 (updated 2 August 2024), text & audio. - [Imaginary Sky Masters and Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/10/what-do-imaginary-sky-masters-have-to.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 16 October 2015 (updated 6 May 2024), text & audio. - [Top 10 Posts from 10 Years of Blogging](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/10/top-10-posts-from-10-years-of-blogging.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 15 October 2015 (updated 31 August 2024), text & audio. - [Transhumanists Should Disavow Zoltan Istvan Candidacy](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/10/transhumanists-should-disavow-zoltan.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 2 October 2015 (updated 9 May 2024), text & audio. - [Should I pity PZ Myers?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/09/should-i-pity-pz-myers.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 September 2015 (updated 15 May 2020), text & audio. - [Joy Is Fulfillment of Desires](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/09/joy-is-fulfillment-of-desires.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 September 2015 (updated 2 August 2024), text & audio. - [Joy Is the Purpose of Life](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/09/joy-is-purpose-of-life.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 13 September 2015 (updated 2 August 2024), text & audio. - [Religion and Superintelligence](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/09/religion-and-superintelligence.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 12 September 2015, text & audio. - [Desire Entices Us to Embrace Ethics](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/08/desire-entices-us-to-embrace-ethics.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 August 2015 (updated 2 August 2024), text & audio. - [What Is Mormon Transhumanism?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/07/free-accepted-manuscript-of-what-is.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 July 2015 (updated 11 September 2020), text & audio. - [Meaning of the Mormon Transhumanist Association Logo](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/07/symbolism-of-logo-of-mormon.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 July 2015 (updated 25 June 2021), text & audio. - [Sabbaths of Burden and Delight](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/07/sabbaths-of-burden-and-delight.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 26 July 2015 (updated 17 June 2024), text & audio. - [Mormon Bodies and Mind Uploading](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/07/mormon-bodies-and-mind-uploading.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 July 2015, text & audio. - [Who wrote the Bible? Who is writing the next one?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/07/who-wrote-bible-who-is-writing-next-one.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 9 July 2015 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. - [New God Argument (Version 3.2)](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/06/new-god-argument-version-32.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 25 June 2015 (updated 27 April 2022), text & audio. - [From Dust to Christ](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/06/from-dust-to-christ.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 June 2015 (updated 14 December 2024), text & audio. - [7 Reasons Cryonics Is Compatible with Mormonism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/06/7-reasons-cryonics-is-compatible-with.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 12 June 2015, text & audio. - [Christianity Is Our Transformation, Not My Dogmatism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/05/christianity-is-in-our-transformation.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 15 May 2015 (updated 5 March 2023), text & audio. - [Reputation Is the Identity We Need](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/05/reputation-is-identity-we-need.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 13 May 2015 (updated 14 December 2024), text & audio. - [The Reputation Web](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/05/the-reputation-web.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 11 May 2015 (updated 5 May 2024), text & audio. - [New God Argument (Version 3.1)](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/04/new-god-argument-version-31.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 18 April 2015 (updated 27 April 2022), text & audio. - [Quality for Animal Life as Proto Mormon Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/04/quality-for-animal-life-proto-mormon.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 April 2015 (updated 31 August 2024), text & audio. - [Myths and Visions of Mormon Transhumanists](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/04/myths-and-visions-of-mormon.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 4 April 2015 (updated 15 December 2024), text & audio. - [Controversial Topics in Mormonism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/03/controversial-topics-in-mormonism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 March 2015 (updated 27 May 2024), text & audio. - [Exploring the Mormon Mandate to Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/03/exploring-mormonisms-mandate-to.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 6 March 2015 (updated 1 September 2015), text & audio. - [The Semi-Orthogonality Hypothesis](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/03/the-semi-orthogonality-thesis.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 1 March 2015 (updated 26 July 2023), text & audio. - [God is Superintelligent Posthumanity](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/02/god-is-superintelligent-posthumanity.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 26 February 2015 (updated 1 August 2023), text & audio. - [Richard Dawkins Advocates Cultural Bigotry](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/02/richard-dawkins-advocates-cultural.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 February 2015 (updated 12 May 2024), text & audio. - [Mormon Ontology of God and Synthesis in Superhumanity](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/02/a-mormon-ontology-of-god-and-its.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 11 February 2015 (updated 17 April 2020), text & audio. - [Quantifying Reputation at The World Table](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/01/quantifying-reputation-at-world-table.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 31 January 2015 (updated 21 August 2020), text & audio. - [The End of Religion Misrecognized](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2015/01/the-end-of-religion-misrecognized.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 January 2015 (updated 3 June 2015), text & audio. - [True to Life Christmas](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/12/true-to-life-christmas.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 December 2014 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. - [5 Lotions, Potions, and Pills at 40 Orbits](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/12/15-lotions-potions-and-pills-at-40.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 1 December 2014 (updated 3 November 2024), text & audio. - [Self-Reliance for Reliability and Self-Transcendence](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/11/self-reliance-for-reliability-and-self.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 23 November 2014 (updated 3 June 2015), text & audio. - [Catholic Authorities Teach Theosis](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/10/catholic-authorities-teach-theosis.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 6 October 2014 (updated 16 December 2024), text & audio. - [8 Tools To Manage Technology for My Children](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/09/8-tools-i-use-to-manage-technology-for.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 29 September 2014 (updated 2 July 2015), text & audio. - [Ray Kurzweil and the Postsecularization Hypothesis](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/09/ray-kurzweil-is-evidence-for.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 18 September 2014 (updated 10 November 2024), text & audio. - ["Religion" and "God" and Fundamentalism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/09/religion-and-god-and-fundamentalism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 17 September 2014 (updated 19 December 2023), text & audio. - [Transhumanism, Atheism, and Misrecognized Religion](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/09/transhumanism-is-not-atheism-and-is.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 15 September 2014 (updated 9 May 2024), text & audio. - [Resuscitation Is a Religious Mandate](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/08/resuscitation-by-cryonics-or-otherwise.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 August 2014 (updated 9 May 2024), text & audio. - [How Weak Is the Orthogonality Thesis?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/07/how-weak-is-orthogonality-thesis-of.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 26 July 2014 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. - [This Is Still the Place](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/07/this-is-still-place.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 July 2014 (updated 2 July 2015), text & audio. - [Watching and Searching](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/07/watching-and-searching.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 12 July 2014 (updated 3 June 2015), text & audio. - [Sanctimony Desecrates Excommunication](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/06/sanctimony-desecrates-excommunication.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 June 2014 (updated 3 June 2015), text & audio. - [What Is the Value of Religion?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/06/what-is-value-of-religion.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 22 June 2014 (updated 19 December 2023), text & audio. - [Compassion Above and Beyond Technofascism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/05/compassion-above-and-beyond.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 May 2014 (updated 7 March 2022), text & audio. - [What should be the future of governance?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/05/what-should-be-future-of-governance.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 16 May 2014 (updated 3 June 2015), text & audio. - [New God Argument (Version 3.0)](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/05/new-god-argument-experimental-version-30.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 9 May 2014 (updated 27 April 2022), text & audio. - [Does the Mormon God Shun?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/04/does-the-mormon-god-shun.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 April 2014 (updated 17 November 2024), text & audio. - [American Atheists](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/04/american-atheists.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 April 2014 (updated 7 March 2022), text & audio. - [68 Meditations on the God Who Weeps](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/04/68-meditations-on-god-who-weeps.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 April 2014 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. - What is a Mormon Transhumanist?, Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 9 April 2014 (updated 25 June 2021), [text](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/04/what-is-mormon-transhumanist.html) & [video](/videos/lincoln-cannon-what-is-a-mormon-transhumanist). - [Religion is the Most Powerful Social Technology](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/03/religion-is-most-powerful-social.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 29 March 2014 (updated 28 August 2020), text & audio. - [11 Reasons Neil DeGrasse Tyson Didn't Debunk Religion](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/03/11-reasons-neil-degrasse-tyson-hasnt.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 March 2014 (updated 5 January 2021), text & audio. - [Progressive Revelation Among the Mormons](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/03/progressive-revelation-among-mormons.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 March 2014 (updated 29 April 2023), text & audio. - [Technological Evolution and Postsecular Religion](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/03/a-vision-of-technological-evolution-and.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 4 March 2014 (updated 28 August 2020), text & audio. - [Communities Become Like God](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/03/communities-become-like-god.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 3 March 2014 (updated 18 October 2015), text & audio. - [Reflections on Global Trends 2030](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2014/02/reflections-on-global-trends-2030.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 1 February 2014 (updated 5 December 2024), text & audio. - [Are We Living in a Family History Simulation?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/12/are-we-living-in-family-history.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 13 December 2013 (updated 3 June 2015), text & audio. - [Future Technology for Family History Simulations](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/12/imagine-future-technology-for-family.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 8 December 2013 (updated 27 May 2024), text & audio. - [What is wrong with being a wirehead?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/10/whats-wrong-with-being-wirehead.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 October 2013 (updated 12 July 2017), text & audio. - [Morality is not static subsets of values](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/09/morality-is-not-static-subsets-of-values.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 15 September 2013 (updated 3 June 2015), text & audio. - [Glimpse a Future of Religion through Transfigurism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/08/glimpse-into-future-of-religion-through.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 17 August 2013 (updated 5 January 2021), text & audio. - [Mormon Life Extension, Desecration or Glorification?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/08/mormons-on-life-extension-therapy.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 15 August 2013 (updated 21 August 2020), text & audio. - [Honoring Motherhood](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/05/honoring-motherhood.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 12 May 2013 (updated 4 August 2022), text & audio. - [Christ and the Gospel in Mormon Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/04/spirituality-gospel-and-christ-in.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 April 2013 (updated 9 November 2024), text & audio. - [PZ Myers Is Skeptical About Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/04/believe-it-or-not-pz-myers-is-skeptical.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 April 2013 (updated 21 August 2020), text & audio. - Purpose of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 April 2013 (updated 25 June 2021), [text](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/04/purpose-of-mormon-transhumanist.html) & [video](/videos/lincoln-cannon-purpose-of-the-mormon-transhumanist-association). - [Do I want to be a robot?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/02/do-i-want-to-be-robot.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 12 February 2013 (updated 10 May 2024), text & audio. - [Comparison of the Book of Mosiah to the Bible](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/02/computed-comparison-of-book-of-mosiah.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 3 February 2013 (updated 30 August 2024), text & audio. - [Evil Gods will rise and fall they must](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/01/evil-gods-will-rise-and-fall-they-must.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 January 2013 (updated 23 September 2021), text & audio. - [Comparison of the Book of Jacob to the Bible](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/01/computed-comparison-of-book-of-jacob-to.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 19 January 2013 (updated 30 August 2024), text & audio. - [Transhumanist Godhead](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2013/01/transhumanist-godhead.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 6 January 2013 (updated 23 March 2022), text & audio. - [Would It Be Moral to Create a World Like Ours?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/12/would-it-be-moral-to-create-world-like.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 December 2012 (updated 14 December 2024), text & audio. - [Comparison of the Second Book of Nephi to the Bible](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/12/computed-comparison-of-second-book-of.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 17 December 2012 (updated 30 August 2024), text & audio. - [Comparison of the First Book of Nephi to the Bible](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/12/computed-comparison-of-first-book-of.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 9 December 2012 (updated 30 August 2024), text & audio. - [As One that Hath a Familiar Spirit](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/12/as-one-that-hath-familiar-spirit.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 8 December 2012 (updated 30 August 2024), text & audio. - [Letter to a Seminary Teacher on Human Evolution](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/12/letter-to-my-sons-seminary-teacher-on.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 5 December 2012 (updated 6 May 2024), text & audio. - [Merit Medical in InformationWeek Top Tech Innovators](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/11/merit-medical-makes-informationweek.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 November 2012 (updated 8 October 2023), text & audio. - [The Altruist God of an Egoist Atheist](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/11/the-altruist-god-of-egoist-atheist.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 November 2012 (updated 3 June 2015), text & audio. - [Mormonism Mandates Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/10/mormonism-mandates-transhumanism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 October 2012 (updated 14 December 2024), text & audio. - [Evolving Gods and Richard Dawkins](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/09/evolving-gods-and-richard-dawkins.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 3 September 2012 (updated 10 November 2024), text & audio. - [The Consolation](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/08/the-consolation-interpretive-variation.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 25 August 2012 (updated 7 August 2020), text & audio. - [Humanistic Mormonism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/07/humanistic-mormonism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 17 July 2012 (updated 7 March 2022), text & audio. - [Post-Secularism and the Resurrecting God](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/06/post-secularism-and-resurrecting-god.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 June 2012 (updated 15 February 2023), text & audio. - [A Mormon View of the Judeo-Christian Creation Story](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/06/mormon-interpretation-of-judeo.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 5 June 2012 (updated 6 May 2024), text & audio. - [Should You Persuade Me of Your Ideology?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/05/should-you-persuade-me-of-your-ideology.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 28 May 2012 (updated 2 December 2024), text & audio. - [How strong are constraints on intelligent purpose?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/05/how-strong-are-constraints-on.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 13 May 2012 (updated 26 July 2023), text & audio. - [Imagine a 1970 Journal Entry on Blacks and Priesthood](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/05/imagine-1970-journal-entry-from-mormon.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 12 May 2012 (updated 7 August 2020), text & audio. - [Becoming God Can Be Cruel and Irrational](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/05/becoming-god-can-be-cruel-and.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 1 May 2012 (updated 23 September 2021), text & audio. - [Information Technology for the Work of God](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/04/information-technology-for-work-of-god.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 April 2012 (updated 3 July 2015), text & audio. - [Thoughts for a Mormon Friend in Religious Crisis](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/03/thoughts-for-friend-in-religious-crisis.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 26 March 2012 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. - [A Strenuous Mood for Transhumanism on Mormon Matters](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/03/provoking-strenuous-mood-for.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 17 March 2012 (updated 24 June 2022), text & audio. - [Teaching Teenagers to Value Sex without Sexism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/03/teaching-teenagers-to-value-sex-without.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 March 2012 (updated 3 July 2015), text & audio. - [Parallels and Convergences](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/02/parallels-and-convergences-mormon.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 February 2012 (updated 10 November 2024), text & audio. - [From Following Christ to Being Christ](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/02/from-infancy-of-following-christ-to.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 15 February 2012 (updated 13 December 2024), text & audio. - [Dyson Spheres, Von Neumann Probes, and Fermi Paradox](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/02/do-dyson-spheres-and-von-neumann-probes.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 2 February 2012 (updated 7 August 2020), text & audio. - [Turn Back the Doomsday Clock](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/01/turn-back-doomsday-clock.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 11 January 2012 (updated 10 December 2022), text & audio. - [John 3:16 from a Mormon Perspective](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/01/john-3-16-from-mormon-perspective.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 9 January 2012 (updated 30 August 2024), text & audio. - [Deification Banned "By Common Consent"](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2012/01/deification-banned-by-common-consent.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 2 January 2012 (updated 3 July 2015), text & audio. - [The Consolation at Turing Church Workshop 2011](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/12/consolation-turing-church-workshop-2011.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, , text & audio. - [What Are You Creating, Heaven or Hell?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/12/what-are-you-creating-heaven-or-hell.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 9 December 2011 (updated 14 September 2014), text & audio. - [Less child sexual abuse in our better world](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/11/less-child-sexual-abuse-in-our-better.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 15 November 2011 (updated 3 July 2015), text & audio. - [Mormons, Politics, and Extra Ordinaries](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/10/mormons-politics-and-extra-ordinaries.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 October 2011 (updated 4 August 2024), text & audio. - [The Singularity Doesn't Need Paul Allen to Understand](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/10/singularity-doesnt-require-paul-allens.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 13 October 2011 (updated 7 March 2022), text & audio. - [Is postgenderism desirable?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/10/is-postgenderism-desirable.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 October 2011 (updated 3 July 2015), text & audio. - [Dynamic Faith in Pancritical Rationalism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/10/dynamic-faith-in-pancritical.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 October 2011 (updated 7 March 2022), text & audio. - [Quantum Archeology and the Resurrected You](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/08/quantum-archeology-resurrected-you.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 9 August 2011 (updated 22 May 2024), text & audio. ` - [Questions about God from "Closer to Truth"](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/07/questions-about-god-from-closer-to.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 23 July 2011 (updated 6 May 2024), text & audio. - [Jesus Christ and Atonement in Knowledge and Goodness](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/07/jesus-christ-and-our-atonement-in.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 July 2011 (updated 5 January 2021), text & audio. - [Why Should Theists Learn How to Resurrect the Dead?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/07/why-should-theists-try-to-learn-how-to.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 19 July 2011 (updated 23 September 2021), text & audio. - [Ecumenical Mormonism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/07/ecumenical-mormonism.html) Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 19 July 2011 (updated 29 April 2023), text & audio. - [The Singularity Doesn't Require Understanding](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/07/singularity-merits-understanding-but.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 15 July 2011 (updated 10 November 2024), text & audio. - [Speculating Around Speculative Singularity Roadblocks](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/07/speculating-around-speculative.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 11 July 2011 (updated 10 November 2024), text & audio. - [Predicting the weather near Kolob](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/06/predicting-weather-near-kolob.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 June 2011 (updated 16 November 2015), text & audio. - [Singularity Institute Summit in Salt Lake City](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/06/singularity-institute-summit-in-salt.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 7 June 2011 (updated 3 July 2015), text & audio. - [21 May 2011 is Mercy Day](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/05/21-may-2011-is-mercy-day.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 May 2011 (updated 19 September 2015), text & audio. - [145 Highlights from FutureMed Singularity University](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/05/145-highlights-from-futuremed.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 17 May 2011 (updated 26 February 2024), text & audio. - [May 21st Judgment Day](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/05/may-21st-judgment-day.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 12 May 2011 (updated 19 September 2015), text & audio. - [Living in an undecidable halting problem of evil?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/05/are-you-living-in-undecidable-halting.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/05/are-you-living-in-undecidable-halting.html, text & audio. - [Singularity University FutureMed, here I come!](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/05/im-excited-to-tell-you-that-ill-be.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 5 May 2011 (updated 3 July 2015), text & audio. - [Capital One owes me $1500](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/04/capital-one-owes-me-1500.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 April 2011 (updated 16 November 2015), text & audio. - [Sam Harris Asks, Should We Be Mormons in the Matrix?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/04/sam-harris-asks-should-we-be-mormons-in.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 22 April 2011 (updated 10 November 2024), text & audio. - [Technological Singularity as Religious Ideology](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/04/technological-singularity-as-religious.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 April 2011 (updated 15 May 2020), text & audio. - [Transhumanist Stories for the Child in Each of Us](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/04/transhumanist-stories-for-child-in-each.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 2 April 2011 (updated 16 November 2015), text & audio. - [You Don't Intuit Accelerating Technological Change](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/03/no-you-dont-intuit-accelerating.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 31 March 2011 (updated 5 January 2021), text & audio. - [2001 and 2010 in 2011](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/03/2001-and-2010-in-2011.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 March 2011 (updated 13 October 2015), text & audio. - [What is Transhumanism?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/03/what-is-transhumanism.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 March 2011 (updated 21 December 2023), text & audio. - [Religious Arrogance](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/02/religious-arrogance.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 February 2011 (updated 13 December 2024), text & audio. - [More Christian Fundamentalism from Cris Putnam](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/02/more-christian-fundamentalism-from-cris.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 February 2011 (updated 3 July 2015), text & audio. - [Response to Cris Putnam on Christian Transhumanism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/02/response-to-cris-putnam-on-christian.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 13 February 2011 (updated 3 July 2015), text & audio. - [Gods of suffering and oppression](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/01/gods-of-suffering-and-oppression.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 31 January 2011 (updated 23 September 2021), text & audio. - [Jesus Doesn't Like Our Religious Arrogance](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/01/jesus-doesnt-like-our-religious.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 8 January 2011 (updated 13 December 2024), text & audio. - ["Look!" and Live: Meditation on 3 Nephi 28](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2011/01/look-and-live-meditation-on-3-nephi-28.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 6 January 2011 (updated 4 December 2014), text & audio. - [You may not need a brain, but you want one](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/12/you-may-not-need-brain-but-you-want-one.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 18 December 2010 (updated 12 July 2024), text & audio. - [Our Story after Belief, Consent and Disillusionment](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/12/our-story-after-belief-consent-and.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 16 December 2010 (updated 1 December 2015), text & audio. - [Ethical Progress Is Not Babel](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/12/ethical-progress-is-not-babel.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 December 2010 (updated 23 February 2015), text & audio. - [Demonizing Transhumanism on Worldview Weekend Radio](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/12/demonizing-transhumanism-on-worldview.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 4 December 2010 (updated 7 March 2022), text & audio. - [Responding to the Rise of Techno-Gods](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/11/responding-to-rise-of-techno-gods.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 23 November 2010 (updated 21 November 2024), text & audio. - [Enforcing Cloud Security at Merit Medical](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/11/notes-on-cloud-computing-security.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 18 November 2010 (updated 15 May 2020), text & audio. - [Can non-benevolent super-intelligence persist?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/10/can-non-benevolent-super-intelligence.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 31 October 2010 (updated 7 March 2022), text & audio. - [Ontological Matrices, Lincoln Cannon](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/10/matrices.html), lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 October 2010 (updated 31 August 2024), text & audio. - [A Missionary's Practical Faith in Resurrection](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/10/former-missionarys-practical-faith-in.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 28 October 2010 (updated 3 September 2024), text & audio. - [Homosexuality: A Straight BYU Student's Perspective](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/10/homosexuality-straight-byu-students.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 26 October 2010 (updated 6 May 2024), text & audio. - [Transfigurism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/10/transcript-of-presentation-for.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 23 October 2010 (updated 27 March 2024), text & audio. - [Trust in Posthumanity and the New God Argument](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/10/transcript-of-presentation-at.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 3 October 2010 (updated 10 November 2024), text & [video](/videos/lincoln-cannon-trust-in-posthumanity-and-the-new-god-argument). - [Open Letter to Christians on the Future of Humanity](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/09/another-open-letter-to-christians-on.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 25 September 2010 (updated 7 March 2022), text & audio. - [Further Inspiration on Designer Universes](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/08/further-inspiration-on-designer.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 31 August 2010 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio. - [The Big Bang from Posthuman Computers in Black Holes?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/08/before-big-bang-posthuman-computers-in.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 August 2010 (updated 7 March 2022), text & audio. - [Journey through Disillusionment to Active Enchantment](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/08/our-journey-through-disillusionment-to.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 14 August 2010 (updated 2 December 2024), text & audio. - [Posthuman Evolution Recapped Human Growth?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/08/posthuman-evolution-recapped-human.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 August 2010 (updated 21 December 2023), text & audio. - [Reasons for Technological Interpretation of Mormonism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/08/sunstone-transcript-reasons-for.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 8 August 2010 (updated 11 September 2020), text & audio. - [6 Reasons You Might Upload Yourself Into a Computer](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/07/6-reasons-why-you-might-upload-yourself.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 30 July 2010 (updated 10 May 2024), text & audio. - [Pope Benedict and Immortalists](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/07/pope-benedict-and-immortalists.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 1 July 2010 (updated 25 June 2021), text & audio. - [Inspired by Richard Dawkins and The God Delusion](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/06/inspired-by-richard-dawkins-god.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 June 2010 (updated 10 November 2024), text & audio. - [Problems with Americans' Expectations of Life in 2050](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/06/two-problems-with-americans.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 25 June 2010 (updated 5 January 2021), text & audio. - [The Real Religious Hubris Is Not Theosis](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/06/religious-hubris.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 6 June 2010 (updated 10 July 2020), text & audio. - [Do rituals save us?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/06/do-rituals-save-us.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 4 June 2010 (updated 22 August 2016), text & audio. - [Will posthumans all doubt their own existence?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/06/will-posthumans-all-doubt-their-own.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 1 June 2010 (updated 10 December 2021), text & audio. - [Consolation for Jesus with Science and Technology](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/05/consolation-for-jesus-and-emotion-with.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 May 2010 (updated 15 May 2020), text & audio. - [The God of Love Is the God of Critical Thinking](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/05/god-of-love-is-god-of-critical-thinking.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 16 May 2010 (updated 12 December 2015), text & audio. - [Resurrection is the Natural Consequence of Genealogy](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/05/resurrection-is-natural-consequence-of.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 3 May 2010 (updated 8 October 2023), text & audio. - [Should we talk to aliens?](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/04/should-we-talk-to-aliens.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 April 2010 (updated 29 October 2016), text & audio. - [Perspective on the Benevolence Argument](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/04/perspective-on-benevolence-argument.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 26 April 2010 (updated 5 May 2024), text & audio. - [Fourth Response to a Mormon Transhumanist Response](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/04/concluding-response-to-mormon.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 25 April 2010 (updated 5 May 2024), text & audio. - [Third Response to a Mormon Transhumanist Response](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/04/more-continued-response-to-mormon.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 24 April 2010 (updated 5 May 2024), text & audio. - [Second Response to a Mormon Transhumanist Response](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/04/continued-response-to-mormon.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 21 April 2010 (updated 5 May 2024), text & audio. - [First Response to a Mormon Transhumanist Response](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/04/response-to-mormon-transhumanist.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 20 April 2010 (updated 5 May 2024), text & audio. - [Thank God for Negated Negative Prophecies](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/04/thank-god-for-negated-negative.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 18 April 2010 (updated 14 December 2024), text & audio. - [MTA Affiliation and Unaffiliation with Humanity+](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/04/mta-affiliation-and-unaffiliation-with.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 10 April 2010 (updated 29 April 2023), text & audio. - [Theological Implications of the New God Argument](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/03/transcript-of-new-god-argument-at-smpt.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 26 March 2010 (updated 10 November 2024), text & audio. - [New God Argument (Version 2.0)](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/03/revised-summary-of-new-god-argument.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 26 March 2010 (updated 27 April 2022), text & audio. - [Complex Life Found Under 600 Feet of Antarctic Ice](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/03/complex-life-found-under-600-feet-of.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 19 March 2010 (updated 29 October 2016), text & audio. - [The Role of Human Culture In Natural Selection](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/03/role-of-human-culture-in-natural.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 5 March 2010 (updated 29 October 2016), text & audio. - [Why the internet will fail (from 1995)](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/03/why-internet-will-fail-from-1995.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 5 March 2010 (updated 29 October 2016), text & audio. - [Inject the Scientific Esthetic with a Divine Symphony](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/02/inject-scientific-esthetic-with-divine.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 27 February 2010 (updated 6 October 2016), text & audio. - [Technology Beyond Mere Technology](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/02/technology-beyond-mere-technology.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 9 February 2010 (updated 31 July 2024), text & audio. - [Information Hazards of the Gods](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/01/information-hazards-of-gods.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 18 January 2010 (updated 6 October 2016), text & audio. - [Brief Comparison of Cosmism and Transfigurism](https://lincoln.metacannon.net/2010/01/brief-comparison-of-cosmism-and.html), Lincoln Cannon, lincoln.metacannon.net, 4 January 2010 (updated 11 November 2024), text & audio.