{"id":249243,"date":"2021-02-06T08:02:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T13:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-wiktionary\/"},"modified":"2021-02-06T08:02:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T13:02:27","slug":"transhuman-wiktionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/transhuman-wiktionary\/","title":{"rendered":"transhuman &#8211; Wiktionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>English[edit]Etymology[edit]<\/p>\n<p>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).<\/p>\n<p>transhuman (comparative more transhuman, superlative most transhuman)<\/p>\n<p>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 .<\/p>\n<p>A template for those who will become transhuman.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that this is important, because taken in isolation the kind of enhancements portrayed by transhuman philosophers might seem relatively innocuous.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This \"other world\" is transcendent because the experience of the sacredan encounter with a reality transcending immanent lifegives birth to the idea that there are absolute, that is, transhuman, realities.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, regardless of whether one prefers to replace the father symbol with other human symbols like mother and maternalor with transhuman and transsexual symbols like first\/last realitynone of these images or symbols are really integral to the message of the Gospels.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>transhuman (countable and uncountable, plural transhumans)<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>On the coffee table rested a sculpture of the fundamental, recombinant DNA of the present transhumans.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Will it happaen again if we transition from human to transhuman?<\/p>\n<p>I bet every critter that thinks it thinkseven the transhumansworry about how to do right for themselves and the ones they love.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/transhuman\" title=\"transhuman - Wiktionary\" rel=\"noopener\">transhuman - Wiktionary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> English[edit]Etymology[edit] 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\").  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/transhuman\/transhuman-wiktionary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transhuman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}