HeyJaredLincoln Cannon
Lincoln Cannon is a technologist and philosopher, and leading voice of Mormon Transhumanism.
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In Memory of Mike LaTorra (opens the original)
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My friend Mike LaTorra died on Wednesday, 2 September 2026. He taught English at New Mexico State University for more than two decades. And he was ordained a Zen Buddhist priest, presiding for a time over the Daibutsuji Zen Temple in Las Cruces. Mike also served on the board of directors of the World Transhumanist Association when they voted to affiliate with the Mormon Transhumanist Association. That was July 2006. The Mormon Transhumanist Association was just a few months old. He and his fello
TrueChristian® Hypocrisy (opens the original)
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I received a Google Alert for “[Christians Only] WDYT of Christian Transhumanism Association?: r/TrueChristian - Reddit.” Christians only? Okay. I’m Christian. So I clicked on the link and read the thread. The “Christian” originator tells of going down the proverbial “rabbit hole” and learning about Christian Transhumanism. Although confused and inviting thoughts, he’s “pretty sure” that the common Christian Transhumanist idea of resurrecting the dead is “heresy.” An “Eastern Orthodox” commenter
The Vanguardism Trap (opens the original)
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A friend recently described to me a “stench of fascism” in rationalist discourse. “Any theory that makes ‘clear thinking’ a scarce, trainable, testable property generates a distinction between those who have it and those who don’t,” he wrote. “And that distinction is convertible into political authority no matter what the theory says about itself.” He’s right about the mechanism. I’ve smelled it too. But there’s probably a more useful name for it. What he and I have smelled, I suggest, may be mo
Without Beginning (opens the original)
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Dorothée and I usually watch a show together before bed. Presently, we’re watching a science fiction show with a narrative that revolves around time travel. It’s entertaining, especially the recreations of historical events that bump into modern sensibilities. But it’s also incoherent in many ways. My work sometimes invites questions about time travel, for at least a couple reasons. First, although neither intended nor necessary, time travel could explain recursion in the Creation Argument of th
Finding Ourselves Making (opens the original)
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We often speak of identity as if it were atomic, in the strict sense of the word: a fixed kernel you either have or don’t. We imagine a self that persists whole or perishes entire, with nothing between. But identity isn’t atomic. Identity is organized. It admits of more and less. It can be distinguished or obscured, aggregated or dispersed, robust or fragile, complex or simple, and empowered or impotent. And it changes. Identity and existence are different concepts, even while overlapping. Somet
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