From: Anders Sandberg (nv91-asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Sat Mar 29 1997 - 16:37:16 MST
On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Gregory Houston wrote:
> Even the "trans" in transhuman, refering to transcendental, is teaming
> with contradicting religous and political connotations.
Trans- is a latin morphem meaning "over", "beyond"; it has nothing to do
with transcendence (other than being a part of the word:
trans+ascendere?). After all, transnational organizations are not very
transcendent or religious.
> On an aside, I thought of a derogatory term for perversions of extropian
> memes which do not clearly require dynamic optimism: extropiates. An
> example extropiate might be: "technology will make everything better",
Good term!
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