Meaning of transhuman | Babel Free

Definitions

1. More than human; superhuman.
2. Related to transhumanism.
3. Involving something beyond the merely human; transcending human limitations or boundaries.

Examples

“Turning fallible human foot soldiers into transhuman machines who need⟳ neither sleep⟳ nor food, and are incapable of resistance and independent thought, is a Napoleonic dream⟳ .”

“A template for those who will become⟳ transhuman.”

“I believe⟳ that this is important, because taken in isolation the kind of enhancements portrayed by transhuman philosophers might seem relatively innocuous.”

“The transhuman ideal is based upon a reconception of evolution, a perfecting and transcending of the human race⟳ through the next step in progress⟳: not through biological mutation but through science and technology.”

“In a study⟳ of transhumanists and video games, fully twothirds of the participants claimed that video games incline players toward a transhuman sense⟳ of self.”

“Near-synonym: posthuman (sometimes synonymous)”

“This "other world" is transcendent because the experience⟳ of the sacred—an encounter with a reality transcending immanent life—gives birth to the idea that there are absolute, that is, transhuman, realities.”

“Thus, regardless of whether one prefers to replace⟳ the father symbol with other human symbols like⟳ mother and maternal—or with transhuman and transsexual symbols like⟳ first/last⟳ reality—none of these images or symbols are really integral to the message of the Gospels.”

“Subjectivity, as a paradoxically transhuman phenomenon of awareness renderred only in ecologies, is rendered into inscriptions and images even as no self is adequate to the report⟳.”

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