Technological Evolution
Technological evolution rejects the belief that human nature is static, recognizing the impact of both biological evolution and historical development driven by cultural and technological change. It acknowledges that humanity has continually evolved and will continue to do so. This perspective is grounded in the idea of active participation in the evolutionary process. It emphasizes shaping our future via culture and technology toward superhuman existence.
This is a list of articles that Lincoln Cannon has written about technological evolution. 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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Our Spiritual and Technological Evolution
As the line between human and artificial life is increasingly blurred, our apprehension in the apocalypse of intelligence is steadily ...
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Potential Is Origin in Religious Transhumanism
This is a transcript of a sermon I gave at the Unitarian Universalist Society of South Valley in Salt Lake ...
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Technological Evolution and Postsecular Religion
Humanity is engaged in epochal change, an accelerating technological and cultural evolution with unprecedented risks and opportunities. Among the possibilities ...
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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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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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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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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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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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The Big Bang from Posthuman Computers in Black Holes?
A friend asked for my opinion on what came before the big bang. I’m not a physicist or cosmologist, but ...
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Posthuman Evolution Recapped Human Growth?
A Wired article recently explained “Human Evolution Recapped in Kids’ Brain Growth.” Basically, the idea is that 25 million years’ ...
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Looking for God in the Wrong Places
I recently came across an interesting blog post entitled “An Alien God,” by Eliezer Yudkowsky, who is a transhumanist AI ...
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The Universe IS the Neohuman
I’ve mentioned before, but want to make more explicit here, the idea that there seems to be no reason to ...