transhuman
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trans- + human, also attested as trans-human in the 1950s. Attributed to Teilhard de Chardin, as French trans-humain (noun, sometimes capitalised as (le) Trans-humain), who used it alongside ultra-humain (“the ultra-human”). As a countable English noun (plural transhumans) introduced by F. M. Esfandiary in the 1960s (here trans- is short for transitional).
Base: human
Affixes: trans-
Inflected forms:
form: more transhuman
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most transhuman
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: transhumans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: More than human; superhuman.
pos: adj
examples: Turning fallible human foot soldiers into transhuman machines who need neither sleep nor food, and are incapable of resistance and independent thought, is a Napoleonic dream .
A template for those who will become transhuman.
gloss: Related to transhumanism.
pos: adj
examples: I believe that this is important, because taken in isolation the kind of enhancements portrayed by transhuman philosophers might seem relatively innocuous.
The transhuman ideal is based upon a reconception of evolution, a perfecting and transcending of the human race through the next step in progress: not through biological mutation but through science and technology.
In a study of transhumanists and video games, fully twothirds of the participants claimed that video games incline players toward a transhuman sense of self.
gloss: Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: posthuman (sometimes synonymous)
This "other world" is transcendent because the experience of the sacred—an encounter with a reality transcending immanent life—gives birth to the idea that there are absolute, that is, transhuman, realities.
Thus, regardless of whether one prefers to replace the father symbol with other human symbols like mother and maternal—or with transhuman and transsexual symbols like first/last reality—none of these images or symbols are really integral to the message of the Gospels.
Subjectivity, as a paradoxically transhuman phenomenon of awareness renderred only in ecologies, is rendered into inscriptions and images even as no self is adequate to the report.
gloss: An enhanced human:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the same way that a transhuman is a transitional human, Christians are also humans in transition, living in a kingdom that has come and yet is coming, “strangers in the world.”
gloss: An enhanced human:
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: On the coffee table rested a sculpture of the fundamental, recombinant DNA of the present transhumans.
In practice, this technological transhumation would wreak havoc on the earth. While modern transhumans are meant to come into being through technology, Augustine offers two models of transhumans made by a divine rather than a human creator -- Adam and Eve in Eden and the resurrected saints in heaven.
Will it happen again if we transition from human to transhuman?
gloss: A being that transcends humanity; a superhuman being.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I bet every critter that thinks it thinks—even the transhumans—worry about how to do right for themselves and the ones they love.
Imagine a living computer running a simulation where math functions within the simulation think. Then consider an implication of anthrocosmology: if human consciousness created reality and transhumans can simulate any reality they can imagine, that suggest the physical universe has no special status above any other virtual reality.
Now ask yourself a question, don't these transhumans have as much a right in killing us for food as we do in killing cows?
Derived words: transhumanity
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