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Faith’s appropriation of Evolution’s “given enough time” argument
by Mark Russell
December 05, 2019
“Given enough time” has always been the argument for evolution. Scientist would simply say given enough time Evolution works. This morning I saw an article about how we are recreating the functionality of our neurons within silicon chips. Upon rea...
A Messy and Beautiful Thanksgiving.
by Mike Morrell
November 28, 2019
I’m having complicated feelings this Thanksgiving. While there may have indeed been pockets of genuine hospitality and mutual material and cultural exchange between early ‘pilgrims’ and indigenous inhabitants of this land, our su...
Daring to Think Again | David Brisbin
by Mike Morrell
November 26, 2019
The following is an excerpt from Daring to Think Again by David Brisbin. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Freefall Trust Before you jump, you can kn...
Beam Me (my mindclone) Up to L5! Terasem Colloquium
November 25, 2019
Bergson and Einstein are still debating the nature of time and change
November 22, 2019
Getting to L5 in Our Lifetimes: Join the Terasem Twitter Colloquium
November 21, 2019
The brain is the final frontier of our privacy, and AI is about to breach it
by Mark Russell
November 20, 2019
Lucas Bento & Thiago BentoJust wrote an awesome article about BCI’s and how they will affect us all in the future. https://qz.com/1750852/what-ai-chips-do-to-peoples-brains/?utm_source=google-news The post The brain is the final frontier of o...
Beware of Hypocrisy | Robert Waligurski
by Mike Morrell
November 19, 2019
The following is an excerpt from Beware of Hypocrisy by Robert Waligurski. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Churches and Money What Jesus Says about...
Brain Computer Interface BCI, Prophecy, and Gods plan
by Mark Russell
November 18, 2019
Haven’t done a video blog post for a while. Sorry, I kind of run on forever. But regardless it’s some thoughts on brain computer interface and what that means for prophecy. Is God using it? Can God use brain-computer interfaces? I believe YES!!! ...
Brain Computer Interface BCI, Prophecy, and Gods plan
by Mark Russell
November 18, 2019
The post Brain Computer Interface BCI, Prophecy, and Gods plan appeared first on The Singularity.
Finally the church is starting to talk about AI
by Mark Russell
November 17, 2019
Finally the church is starting to talk about AI. In 2012 I saw the movie Transcendent Man and was blown away. For the first time I saw a way that science and religion could co-exist. I was super excited and have spent the last seven or eight ye...
Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot | Artificial Intelligence (AI) Podcast
by Mark Russell
November 15, 2019
This is an absolutely awesome interview with Elon Musk. I have an awful lot of respect for this guy. Super smart, super forward thinker. I really appreciate the level of thinking. The post Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Do...
Unbusy | Andy Dragt
by Mike Morrell
November 14, 2019
The following is an excerpt from Unbusy by Andy Dragt. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. From Chapter One: To me, it seems obvious to think of time a...
AI Impact on Jobs: How can Workers Prepare?
by Elias Kruger
November 14, 2019
In a previous blog, I explored the main findings from a recent MIT paper on AI’s impact on work. In this blog, I want to offer practical advice for workers worried about their jobs future. There is a lot automation anxiety surrounding the topic wh...
What the Bleep, revisited
November 13, 2019
Talk to Transformer
by Mark Russell
November 12, 2019
It’s so easy to believe that the further we go, the worse things will get. It’s more difficult to believe that the further we go the better things will get. But if we believe in God, if we believe that God doesn’t create trash, but creates Preciou...
Grief 2 Growth | Brian D. Smith
by Mike Morrell
November 12, 2019
The following is an excerpt from Grief 2 Growth by Brian D. Smith. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Grief is a universal human emotion. If you live ...
The future of Fortnite, artificial intelligence, and Bots.
by Mark Russell
November 11, 2019
Artificial intelligence is going to take over our world little step at a time. I’m a fortnite fan and play it with my kids so I thought I would just make a quick little post on this. Fortnite just introduced Bots into gameplay. This got me think...
Don't Take My Love from Me
November 09, 2019
I catalogued every feature I could find, and tucked her safely inside my mind.Her skin felt like mine.Her tongue tasted like mine. Her scent even smelled like mine.We were certainly two of the same kind.With all the world’s technologywhy thwart th...
Blessed is the Man | Dale Fredrickson
by Mike Morrell
November 07, 2019
The following is a track from Blessed is the Man by Dale Fredrickson. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Praise for Blessed is the Man “It is difficul...
The ‘Secret’ Origins of the Enneagram—Revealed!
by Mike Morrell
November 07, 2019
The Enneagram of Personality has been captivating communities of seekers for decades now, and seems to have only become more popular in recent years. But a fair amount of confusion persists, about just what it is, where it comes ...
AI Impact on Work: Latest Research Spells Both Hope and Concern
by Elias Kruger
November 06, 2019
In a recent blog I explored Mckinsey’s report on the AI impact for women in the workplace. As the hype around AI subsides, a clearer picture emerges. The “robots coming to replace humans” picture fades. Instead, the more realistic picture is one w...
Too Human
November 06, 2019
You handed me a knife and told me to chop—to cook you something deliciousand satisfy your hunger pangs. But I forgot that you don’t like my cooking. I’m just a little too human.Here’s a microwave.She’ll cook whatever you’d like.She’s always on tim...
The IPFS, Efficiency, Quantum Computers, AI, and God
by Mark Russell
November 01, 2019
Just read a great post from Alex white regarding the IPFS, its efficiency through quantum computers and how a I might end up propelling us to unimaginable efficiency and decentralisation of what we now know as the internet. You can read his compl...
Humanity: Good Ending
by Mark Russell
November 01, 2019
Worthwhile Story on the potential app technology has. I think a long time ago I saw Mark Zuckerberg post a story very similar to this. About the universe dying out because of lack of energy. Effectively all atoms losing energy and the place gets ...
On quantum supremacy, AI, mind uploading, technological resurrection
November 01, 2019
Quantum Computers and AI
by Mark Russell
October 31, 2019
The intelligence explosion is coming soon. It’s hard for our minds to conceptualize the progress of Technology. Our minds are so used to seeing very small increments of progression. Small steps of technological Evolution rather than Revolution. B...
I’m Not Always Okay (And that’s OK.)
by Mike Morrell
October 30, 2019
40 years. As of today, that’s how long I’ve roamed this earth. If you happen to be older than me you might chuckle at what I’m about to say, but if you’re younger, consider this: It feels a bit surreal to span decades—like a tiny...
Journey of the Pearl | A. E. Smith
by Mike Morrell
October 29, 2019
The following is an excerpt from Journey of the Pearl by A. E. Smith. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. The men had stopped their games and grown qui...
CTA Conference 2019: Engagement, Solidarity and Hope
by Elias Kruger
October 25, 2019
I was looking forward to this conference for months. It was my only opportunity in the year to get together with friends that I interact online throughout the year. The line up of speakers was impressive. There were academics, activists, engineers...
The Faithful Spy | John Hendrix
by Mike Morrell
October 24, 2019
The following is a preview from The Faithful Spy by John Hendrix. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Download a Preview PDF → Praise for The Faithful ...
New book chapter (draft): In the beginning was the field
October 24, 2019
AI and Women at the Workplace: A Sensible Guide for 2030
by Elias Kruger
October 23, 2019
Even a few years in, the media craze over AI shows no sign of subsiding. The topic continues to fascinate, scare and befuddle the public. In this environment, the Mckinsey report on AI and Women at the workplace is a refreshing exception. Instead ...
Praise for It Keeps Me Seeking
October 18, 2019
AI Theology Goes to NY: Sandy e Junior and the Power of Music
by Elias Kruger
October 14, 2019
This blog started with a dare. My father-in-law, a faithful reader of the blog, challenged me to write a post about my recent trip to New York I took with my wife. We were there for one night to watch the one and only US concert of the Brazilian b...
Chi ha Paura della pseudoscienza (whatever that is)?
October 13, 2019
The Map Is Not the Journey | Richard Dahlstrom
by Mike Morrell
October 10, 2019
The following is an excerpt from The Map Is Not the Journey by Richard Dahlstrom. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. If success is a mountain, I’m an ...
From My Feed
October 08, 2019
Oh, Elder Oaks, I wish you could see the world from my feed.I see lovely lesbians, gay dads, queer kids, trans parents, bi teens, and drag queens. I see love that defies the boundaries of kingdoms. I see joyful tears at gay weddings. I see proud M...
Turing Church in The World Religions & Spirituality Project
October 08, 2019
AI Theology Goes to New Mexico: Of Petroglyphs and Atomic Bombs
by Elias Kruger
October 07, 2019
Six years ago, my dad and I set on a cross-country road trip from North Carolina to California. No, this was not a vacation but my way to move our stuff to Pasadena. We rented a Penske truck, towed one of our cars, had the dogs with us and drove a...
Empathy or Entropy? The Promise of Christian Transhumanism.
by Mike Morrell
October 06, 2019
In The Empathic Civilization, Jeremy Rifkin summarized the millennia-long human drive of innovation as a race between entropy and empathy. Which is winning? And can the wonders promised by the Transhumanist movement help, or hurt?
A Queer Prayer
October 05, 2019
Me: Heavenly Mother? Are you there?HM: Yes. I’m always here.Me: They say there’s no atheists in the foxhole, and once again I have found myself in a foxhole. I’m tired. So very tired. I don’t know what else to do, but something inside me tells me ...
Last Stop on the Z Train | Jason Storbakken
by Mike Morrell
October 03, 2019
The following is an excerpt from Last Stop on the Z Train by Jason Storbakken. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Marcos Meets the Millers The Miller ...
Jesus Christ in the New God Argument
September 30, 2019
<img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cyE5HkdkLEc/XZGQpm05CcI/AAAAAAACIzo/oxkAArdxqPcAlIAZPOR4jrXACLdrz8DNACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/jesus-crucifix.png" /><br /><br />After r...
Mind Uploading and Scrapbooking
September 30, 2019
I have been quoted a few times as saying, “I’m not interested in having my mind uploaded to a computer.” I should clarify what I mean by this when mind uploading is an important transhumanist topic. First, to be clear, I do not argue portions of m...
Can we have free will & divine action AND many worlds?
September 27, 2019
A Field Guide to Relationships | Christopher T. Rogers
by Mike Morrell
September 26, 2019
The following is an excerpt from A Field Guide to Relationships by Christopher T. Rogers. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. TOOL #9: 1-2-3-4-HELP We ...
Queer Conversations
September 25, 2019
One of my FB pals reached out and asked me, “I see you and your marriage with your husband and think how great it must be to be that open about your ‘queer-ness’. My question is, how did you start that conversation? How would someone tell their sp...
The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence | Matthew Curtis Fleischer
by Mike Morrell
September 24, 2019
The following is an excerpt from The Old Testament Case for Nonviolence by Matthew Curtis Fleischer. It’s a featured Speakeasy selection, and there are still limited review copies available for qualified reviewers. Nonviolence Wa...
Blog Update – New sections and content
by Ryan Hauck
https://ryanhauck1.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/20190727_192237_001.mp4September 23, 2019
Love and Blessings! I had the day off from work today, and the weather kept me inside (lots of grey and rain). So I decided to capitalize on the opportunity to do some writing for my blog and re-vamp some of the sections to add a dimension of prof...
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