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