Definitions
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- adjective
Succeeding human beings as presently defined; more than, or beyond, what is human. - noun A supposed
being of this kind.
Etymologies
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The term posthuman has a lot of subjective baggage attached to it that goes along with flawed concepts of evolution being a measured travel along two objective points to an end destination.
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The posthuman is the point at which the most pressing concerns in gender studies, post-structuralism, cultural materialism & postmodernism converge.
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The discovery is made is that she is one of the earliest immortals, instrumental in posthuman travel to other planets, and knows what death is actually like, and has to work out how to relate to the new people.
Archive 2007-05-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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The discovery is made is that she is one of the earliest immortals, instrumental in posthuman travel to other planets, and knows what death is actually like, and has to work out how to relate to the new people.
Archive 2007-04-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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The discovery is made is that she is one of the earliest immortals, instrumental in posthuman travel to other planets, and knows what death is actually like, and has to work out how to relate to the new people.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Supermen : Tales of the Posthuman Future - Gardner Dozois Blue Tyson 2006
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The first game explores a push toward an era of the 'posthuman' - complete integration of machine and man - and the emergence of nano-augmentation.
Atomic 2010
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A technologically mature "posthuman" civilization would have enormous computing power.
Clay Farris Naff: Sims, Suffering and God: Matrix Theology and the Problem of Evil 2010
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A technologically mature "posthuman" civilization would have enormous computing power.
Clay Farris Naff: Sims, Suffering and God: Matrix Theology and the Problem of Evil 2010
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"Abstract" by Michael Bagnulo: "This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a 'posthuman' stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation."
October 2007 2007
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"Abstract" by Michael Bagnulo: "This paper argues that at least one of the following propositions is true: (1) the human species is very likely to go extinct before reaching a 'posthuman' stage; (2) any posthuman civilization is extremely unlikely to run a significant number of simulations of their evolutionary history (or variations thereof); (3) we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation."
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On the one hand, many of its foundational texts explicitly imagine a future in which our descendants use advanced technologies to radically enhance themselves, thus creating a superior race of "posthumans."
What the Sam Bankman-Fried debacle can teach us about "longtermism" Émile P. Torres 2022
whichbe commented on the word posthuman
An imagined species that will evolve from human beings by manipulating their genetic makeup and augmenting their bodies with robotics and other technology; the future era of this species. (From WordSpy)
Not to be confused with post-human, of course, which is when a human being is sent through the mail.
December 11, 2008