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transhumanist en · ADJ

Etymology

From trans- + human + -ist, after transhumanism.

Meanings

  1. Relating to transhumanism.
    • It wasn't like what you see in the now-popular clichés of tech culture and Silicon Valley. It was not a transhumanist cult. 2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN:

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transhumanist en · NOUN

Etymology

From trans- + human + -ist, after transhumanism.

Meanings

  1. An advocate of transhumanism.
    • Many transhumanists such as [Ray] Kurzweil contend that they are carrying on the legacy of the Enlightenment – that theirs is a philosophy grounded in reason and empiricism, even if they do lapse occasionally into metaphysical language about “transcendence” and “eternal life”. 2017 April 18, Meghan O'Gieblyn, “God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism”, in The Guardian:
    • [Eliezer] Yudkowsky was a transhumanist: human brains were going to be uploaded into digital brains during his lifetime, and this was great news. 2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 44:

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