Meanings
plural transhumanists
- An advocate of transhumanism.First known use 20th c.
[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 441 more example
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
comparative more transhumanist · superlative most transhumanist
- 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
Origin
From trans- + human + -ist, after transhumanism.
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