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Review: The Romance of Reality, by Bobby Azarian
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You are not a cosmic accident. You are a cosmic imperative.
Is Google AI Sentient?
https://feed.metacannon.net/2022/06/is-google-ai-sentient.html.mp3June 23, 2022
Friends have been asking for my opinion on the possibility of sentient AI. And what better time to write about that than early on a morning when I’m literally losing sleep over my thoughts on the question. I happen also to be getting over a bit of...
Gödelian cracks in the surface of physical reality
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Also, a very interesting new paper on IIT metaphysics and ontology.
Croquet Microverse: big news for Metaverse enthusiasts
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Toward a next-generation decentralized, distributed, high-tech Metaverse.
Scientific foundations of serious New Age thinking
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I outline some cases where real science, not only speculative science but also mainstream consensus science, supports New Age intuitions.
Terasem Space Day, July 20: Rick Tumlinson
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The orphans of Apollo grow up. What happens if WE do it right?
ET is smarter than Enrico Fermi, and knows much more
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Fermi paradox, really? Some imagination please!
Join the new Turing Church community on Twitter
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Please join me on my new favorite social network.
A study of Mormon transhumanism, by Jon Bialecki
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I am not a Mormon and I am not a transhumanist, but I am a Mormon transhumanist.
Terasem Space Day, July 20: Elaine Walker, Riccardo Campa
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Two more speakers on the cultural, philosophical, and spiritual aspects of spaceflight and space expansion.
Yet another love letter to Elon Musk
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SpaceX, Moon, Mars, and now Twitter.
95 Thoughts on April 2022 General Conference
https://feed.metacannon.net/2022/04/95-thoughts-on-april-2022-general-conference.html.mp3April 06, 2022
Last Saturday and Sunday, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the largest Mormon denomination, gathered for our 192nd annual General Conference. It’s a long-standing tradition. Recently, it’s also become a tradition for som...
(podcast) Spaceflight, metaphysics, religion, and our cosmic destiny
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/51522449/81147785072e9459cd9a98cc53c7c3c4.mp3April 03, 2022
Listen now | Yet another conversation with Cometan.
(podcast) Turing Church and Astronism, part 2
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Listen now (93 min) | The final destination of the soul and humankind among the stars according to Cometan.
Wesley Smith Still Lies About Transhumanism
https://feed.metacannon.net/2022/03/wesley-smith-still-lies-about-transhumanism.html.mp3March 23, 2022
Writing for the First Things website, Wesley Smith is talking about Transhumanism again. And again he appears not really to know what he’s talking about. But appearances can be deceiving. In this case, he does actually know what he’s talking about...
Decentralization of God
https://feed.metacannon.net/2022/03/decentralization-of-god.html.mp3March 23, 2022
In the Apocalypse, we read that Christ offers us a crown, and invites us to sit together on the throne of God. We read that Christ would make us kings to God. These iron age signs and tokens of governance, Christ would decentralize. If we’re able ...
(podcast) Turing Church and Astronism, part 1
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/50656764/831fa1ced0cd3fb074dd2e29a46f7a8c.mp3March 20, 2022
Listen now (70 min) | A conversation on eschatology and the cosmic future of humanity and human souls.
At this moment we need Elon Musk more than Carl Sagan
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Also, we in the West need multi-partisan support for spaceflight and space expansion.
A Bluish-Green Pebble
https://feed.metacannon.net/2022/03/a-bluish-green-pebble.html.mp3March 06, 2022
This is a poem that I wrote for and gifted to my father, while he was still alive. He died from his third cancer in 1998. The color of the pebble is a reference both to my father’s eyes and to the Earth. A bluish-green pebble bemoaning its being, ...
In Elon We Trust
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This particular personality cult is A Good Thing. Also, a conversation on universal resurrection with Cometan.
Terasem Space Day, July 20: Frank Tipler, Frank White
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Omega Point and Overview Effect. Also, new book by by Michel Eltchaninoff on Russian (and Western) cosmism.
(podcast) Turing Church conversation (NEOHUMAN #77, 2020)
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Listen now (64 min) | Life, the universe & everything, and my book, with Agah Bahari.
Spiritual aspects of spaceflight and space expansion
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Toward our cosmic duty and destiny. Also: Black Sky, 2022 Terasem events.
(podcast) Futurist spaceflight meditations
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/48536583/dea38c62020896c7019a165a5d24027e.mp3February 10, 2022
Listen now (24 min) | My talk at the inaugural digital experience organized by Black Sky.
(video) Futurist spaceflight meditations
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Watch now (24 min) | My talk at the inaugural digital experience organized by Black Sky.
The spirit of the internet
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Also: revisiting Wild Palms and waiting for the metaverse.
The Expanse: last (?) TV show season and last novel
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Plus: religious transhumanism and its critics, events.
My current take on (non)determinism in physical reality
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Also: webinar on "Spirituality and the Moon," February 9.
From Russia with awe and wonder: Cosmism
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Also: Frank Tipler's Omega Point cosmology, superdeterminism.
Reply to a critical review of my book
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Also: R.I.P. Edward Wilson, John Polkinghorne.
Covenant Is Atonement
https://feed.metacannon.net/2022/01/covenant-is-atonement.html.mp3January 09, 2022
This is a transcript of a talk that I gave to my ward, my local congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, earlier today. Ward leaders asked me to talk about making and keeping covenants. So I’ve been thinking and praying abo...
Happy 2022!
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My New Year message of optimism and hope (from the Moon!)
Fly me to the Moon!
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And merry Christmas & happy 2022!
(podcast) Futurist spaceflight conversation
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/45273037/deb9bcb6bb37b8a899869c24d603b6c3.mp3December 15, 2021
Listen now (72 min) | Political, cultural, philosophical, and spiritual aspects of spaceflight and human expansion in the solar system and beyond, with Agah Bahari.
Terasem Colloquium, tomorrow (NEW ZOOM LINK)
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What is consciousness, and how to preserve it beyond physical death?
Futurist spaceflight meditations: interview
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Space expansionism is a cornerstone of Turing Church.
Martine Rothblatt will speak at the Terasem Colloquium on December 10
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Other speakers: Susan Schneider, Randal Koene, Max More, Ken Hayworth, Robert McIntyre. You are invited!
You are invited! Terasem Colloquium on Dec. 10
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Susan Schneider, Randal Koene, Max More, Ken Hayworth, Gabriel Rothblatt, and Robert McIntyre will explore consciousness and how to preserve it.
My current take on emergence and causation
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Is the universe pulled toward Life?
Terasem Colloquium, December 10, 2021
November 11, 2021
(podcast) The simulation hypothesis
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/43713564.mp3November 08, 2021
Listen now (21 min) | Thoughts on various formulations and interpretations of the simulation hypothesis.
Web 2.0 vs web 3.0 decentralization and nft’s explained
by Mark Russell
November 01, 2021
The post Web 2.0 vs web 3.0 decentralization and nft’s explained appeared first on .
Robert Pirsig on universal evolution
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Unpredictable, unpredetermined dynamic change in Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality.
The Economy of Godhood
https://feed.metacannon.net/2021/10/the-economy-of-godhood.html.mp3October 26, 2021
Godhood is the ultimate conceptualization of power. From many Gods through one God, human minds evolved. We knew many. We knew one. Now the apocalypse is here: whether there’s one God or many Gods, all are being revealed. And as they appear, we ar...
The universe is striving toward a goal
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The universe leverages causal openings in micro physical laws to move toward complexity, life, consciousness... Quality?
“Journey into the Future” with Mark Russell (CTA Discussion)
by Mark Russell
October 17, 2021
How might images from scripture apply to our vision of the future? Mark Russell leads the Christian Transhumanist Association monthly discussion, recorded on 2021-04-01. The post “Journey into the Future” with Mark Russell (CTA Discussion) appear...
Turing Church newsletter 10/16/2021
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Turing Church news, meta-thoughts on politics & all that, reading list.
Do we live in a game-world or in a brane-world?
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This simple cosmoforming picture is equivalent to the simulation hypothesis.
As We, in Turn, Become the Limits of Humanity
https://feed.metacannon.net/2021/10/as-we-in-turn-become-the-limits-of-humanity.html.mp3October 10, 2021
Our living ancestors are shelter from the limits of humanity. Within their walls, much is well lit. Much is visible. Much is familiar. But there’s an outside. Beyond their lives, none of us has yet ventured. But we know it’s there, if “there” is t...
Turing Church newsletter 10/09/2021
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Turing Church news, thoughts on the Nobel Prizes, reading list.
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