{"id":1277,"date":"2010-10-21T13:50:04","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T20:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T20:50:40","slug":"ten-most-transhumanist-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/ten-most-transhumanist-words","title":{"rendered":"Ten most transhumanist words"},"content":{"rendered":"

1:<\/strong> Extropian<\/em>, as in \u201cTranshumanists tend to believe that Kurzweil\u2019s extropian Law of Accelerating Returns will ultimately trump the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.\u201d<\/p>\n

2:<\/strong> Bemes<\/em>, as in \u201cBy uploading her bemes, the transhumanist was able to create a mindfile to serve as a basis for a future cyber-conscious analog of herself.\u201d The singular form, beme, refers to a digitally-inheritable unit of beingness (such as a single element of one\u2019s mannerisms, personality, recollections, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values) as in \u201cThe transhuman survivalist had a very strong beme for paranoia.\u201d<\/p>\n

3<\/strong>: Singularity,<\/em> as in \u201cThe Singularity<\/a> \u2014 that era, no more than a few decades hence, when transhumanists believe machine intelligence will merge with and surpass biological intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

4: <\/strong>Ectogenetic<\/em>,<\/em> as in \u201cMany transhumanists look forward to growing replacements for all or part of their body via controlled differentiation of stem cells in an ex vivo ectogenetic process.\u201d<\/p>\n

5:<\/strong> Mindclone<\/em>, as in \u201cTranshumanists are often accepting of the notion that one identity can simultaneously operate across multiple physical and virtual instantiations, via wireless synchronization, with each such instantiation being a mindclone of a biological original mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

6:<\/strong> Vitology<\/em>, as in \u201cSome transhumanists believe biology is simply a subset of vitology, the study of self-replicating Darwinian code subject to mutation and Natural Selection, with the codes expressed in particular molecules for biology and more generally in differing voltage states for vitology.\u201d<\/p>\n

7:<\/strong> Beman,<\/em> as in \u201cA person created with bio-nanotechnology, a cyborg, a virtual person with a human mind, and a person who integrates electronics into their life are four examples of a bio-electronic human, also known as a beman.<\/a><\/p>\n

8:<\/strong> Nanobot,<\/em> as in \u201cTranshumanists have a strong tendency to wish for an acceleration of the date when many problems could be solved with large numbers of microscopic, wirelessly networked, intelligent machines, each of which are called a nanobot.\u201d<\/p>\n

9:<\/strong> Techno-progressive,<\/em> as in \u201cTranshumanists tend to be socially-conscious libertarians, also known as techno-progressive, because they believe technology will solve most of the world\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n

10:<\/strong> Transhuman,<\/em> as in \u201cPeople who believe it is good to transcend our human biological inheritance, such as by modifying our DNA, our bodies or the substrate for our minds, and\/or by leaving the earth to live in space habitats or on other celestial bodies, are considered transhuman.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1: Extropian, as in \u201cTranshumanists tend to believe that Kurzweil\u2019s extropian Law of Accelerating Returns will ultimately trump the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.\u201d 2: Bemes, as in \u201cBy uploading her bemes, the transhumanist was able to create a mindfile to serve as a basis for a future cyber-conscious analog of herself.\u201d The singular form, beme, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}