transhuman
Technologically augmented person
Transhuman describes a state beyond ordinary human limitations, especially through technological enhancement.
The term appears in discussions of augmenting human capabilities through genetic engineering, cybernetics, or artificial intelligence: transhuman intelligence, a transhuman future.
As a noun, a transhuman is a being who has transcended typical human biology while remaining partly human—a transitional stage toward the hypothetical posthuman.
Organic-mechanical hybrid entity
- bionicMechanically augmented human
- implantDevice placed inside tissue
- prosthesisManufactured replacement body part
- enhancementIncrease in quality
exoskeleton · biohacking · genetic modification · neuroprosthetics · cochlear · neural interface · CRISPR · gene therapy
Hypothetical beyond-human cognition
- mind uploadingDigitizing a person's consciousness
- immortalityExemption from death
- artificial general intelligenceMachines with humanlike reasoning
- digital afterlifeContinued online presence post-death
Study of right conduct
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
- existential riskDanger threatening human survival
- posthumanismPhilosophy questioning anthropocentric boundaries
- personhoodStatus as a person
Dystopian tech-noir fiction
- NeuromancerCyberpunk AI antagonist
- GattacaGenetic discrimination thriller
- replicantBioengineered human duplicate
- androidMachine resembling a person
cyberspace · William Gibson · biopunk · uplift · science fiction
Quantity multiplying proportionally over time
- tipping pointThreshold triggering major change
- accelerationRate velocity changes
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
- paradigm shiftWholesale replacement of frameworks
cyborg
Organic-mechanical hybrid entity
- bionicMechanically augmented human
- implantDevice placed inside tissue
- prosthesisManufactured replacement body part
enhancement · exoskeleton · biohacking · genetic modification · neuroprosthetics · cochlear · neural interface · CRISPR · gene therapy · brain-computer interface
superintelligence
Hypothetical beyond-human cognition
- mind uploadingDigitizing a person's consciousness
- immortalityExemption from death
- artificial general intelligenceMachines with humanlike reasoning
biopolitics
Governance of living populations
- immortalismDoctrine opposing mortality
ethics
Study of right conduct
- bioethicsMoral philosophy for medicine
- existential riskDanger threatening human survival
- posthumanismPhilosophy questioning anthropocentric boundaries
cyberpunk
Dystopian tech-noir fiction
- NeuromancerCyberpunk AI antagonist
- GattacaGenetic discrimination thriller
- replicantBioengineered human duplicate
android · cyberspace · William Gibson · biopunk · uplift · science fiction
exponential growth
Quantity multiplying proportionally over time
- tipping pointThreshold triggering major change
- accelerationRate velocity changes
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
paradigm shift · discontinuity · event horizon · Moore's law · emergence
- Sci-Fi Termsfuturistic, alien, robotic, cybernetic, galactic
- cyborgscyborg, T-800, prosthetics, implants, robotic arms
- sentient beingsperson, adult, child, infant, individual
- superpowerstelekinesis, telepathy, superpower, invisibility, force powers
transhumanunaugmented
Not added to
unenhanced · human · unmodified · organic · natural
transhumanprimate
Higher mammal order member
ancestral · prehuman · Homo erectus · caveman · Neanderthal