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transhumanist

noun

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adj

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

  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.

noun

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

  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”.

    [Eliezer] Yudkowsky was a transhumanist: human brains were going to be uploaded into digital brains during his lifetime, and this was great news.