Transhumanist
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Transhumanist is a noun meaning An advocate of transhumanism.
Meaning
An advocate of transhumanism.
More Meanings
- Relating to transhumanism.
Example Sentences
It wasn't like what you see in the now-popular clichés of tech culture and Silicon Valley. It was not a transhumanist cult.
[Eliezer] Yudkowsky was a transhumanist: human brains were going to be uploaded into digital brains during his lifetime, and this was great news.
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”.
Word Forms
- transhumanists
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include neohumanist, posthumanist, transactivist, humanist, techno-utopian, antihumanist.
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