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- 3D PRINTER:
- A-LIFE or ARTIFICIAL LIFE: The modeling of complex, life-like behavior in computer programs. A-Life forms can evolve and produce behaviors not contained within rules set by the programmers. See also the Introduction to Artificial Life by the Santa Fe Institute.
- AI or ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
- AIOID:
- ALEPH: A point or state implementing an infinite amount of computation or information.
- ALGERNON:
- ANTIMATTER:
- ANTIMATTER-CATALYZED FUSION:
- ARCH-ANARCHY:
- ARCOLOGY:
- ARTILECT or ARCHAILECT:
- ASEXUAL:
- ASIMOV:
- ASSEMBLER:
- ASTRONOMICAL UNIT:
- ATHANASIA:
- ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPE:
- ATOMIC LAYER EPITAXY:
- ATOMICALLY-PRECISE MANUFACTURING:
- AUTOEVOLUTION:
- AUTOMATED ENGINEERING:
- AUTOGENESIS:
- AVATAR:
- BASELINE:
- BABY UNIVERSE or BASEMENT UNIVERSE:
- BEANSTALK or SPACE ELEVATOR:
- BEAMED PROPULSION:
- BEKENSTEIN BOUND:
- BERSERKER:
- BETELGEUSE BRAIN: A Jupiter brain that supports itself on its own radiation pressure.
- BIG CRUNCH:
- BIOCHAUVINISM or BIOLUDDISM:
- BIOSTASIS:
- B-LIFE or BIOLOGICAL LIFE:
- BLIGHT: Rapidly expanding and devastating transhuman or posthuman, may also refer to kinematic self-replicating machines (With or without intelligence), or, in more speculative cases, to gray goo.
- BLIND UPLOADING or BRUTE-FORCE UPLOADING: Uploading someone by scanning and using the data almost as directly as possible with a model that incorporates it, without prioritizing certain functions over others, possibly as a way to determine which biological features can be removed without losing higher level functions. In the most extreme cases, it is a quantum chemistry or protein-quaternary-structure simulation of the brain (In such cases, scanning the tissue would require such resolution that most data would have to be interpolated).
- BUSH ROBOT: A robot composed of manipulator arms that subdivide in a fractal pattern into smaller manipulators, ideally down to the micro or nanoscale. Each manipulator would require a certain degree of intelligence to minimize central processing of all movements and minimize latency.
- CALCUTTA SYNDROME:
- CASIMIR EFFECT:
- CLOSED ECOLOGICAL LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM (CELSS): A self-perpetuating, closed-loop ecology that can maintain life inside a hermetic environment or one with zero exchange of matter with the outside, such as a spacecraft or an orbiting hab. Energy is drawn from the outside or from an inside source to support the recycling of the entire biosphere and atmosphere, while maintaining homeostasis.
- CHINESE ROOM:
- CEREBROSTHESIS:
- CHURCH-TURING THESIS:
- COMPUFORM: The act of turning matter into computronium.
- COMPUTRONIUM:
- CONCENTRATED INTELLIGENCE:
- CONNECTIONISM: An approach to neuroscience which holds that connections between nodes (Such as neurons) give rise to thought, rather than thought arising from formal or explicit rules.
- CONTINUITY IDENTITY THEORY:
- CRYOBIOLOGY:
- CRYOCRASTINATE:
- CRYONICS:
- CYBORG: A biological (Typically a human) with electric, mechanical or other artificial parts.
- CYBERCOSM:
- DEFLESH: To replace flesh with non-flesh. [FM-2030. Yes, I hate him too, but I like how it sounds]
- DIAMONDOID: Crystals composed of Group IV elements with a cage-like structure like Diamond or Lonsdaleite, generally terminated in Hydrogen (Fluorine or Chlorine or more sophisticated terminating layers can be engineered). Often discussed in the context of atomically-precise NEMS.
- DISASSEMBLER:
- DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE:
- DOWNLOAD:
- DRYWARE:
- DYSON SPHERE:
- DYSON SWARM:
- DYSON RING:
- DYSON SOLAR WIND POWER SATELLITE:
- DYSON NODE:
- ECTOGENESIS:
- EI or EMERGENT INTELLIGENCE:
- ETERNAL LIFE POSTULATE or TIPLERIST RELIGIOUS TECHNOBABBLE:
- EUTHENICS:
- EVOLUTURE:
- EXCONOMICS:
- EXOSELF:
- FEMTOTECHNOLOGY:
- FERMI PARADOX, THE:
- FLATLANDER
- FOGLET
- FORK:
- FUNCTIONAL SOUP:
- FUTURE SHOCK:
- GALAXY BRAIN: A posthuman (Presumably) implemented in computing systems distributed across an entire galaxy. Light speed lag would make higher-level thoughts take thousands of years to form, but individual subsystems (Dysons, Nodes or other ISOs) would be far faster.
- GENETIC ENGINEERING:
- GENETIC ALGORITHM:
- GENERATION SHIP:
- GENIE: A subservient intelligence with a molecular manufacturing system or a Universal Constructor, programmed to build structures comissioned by its owner.
- GLOBAL VILLAGE CONSTRUCTION SET:
- GREAT FILTER, THE:
- GREY GOO: Self-replicating (Hylonano-only) machines self-replicating uncontrollably using all the atoms from the upper-right corner of the table available in the ecosphere. Highly improbable due to energy constraints, heat dissipation, elemental abundance, mechanosynthethic capabilities, the difficulties of maintaining a machine-phase environment within the robots, the need to fit a (Hypothetical) disassembler as well as an assembler inside a robot and still make it 'nano', and what have you.
- GODEL'S INCOMPLETENESS THEOREM:
- GOD:
- GUY FAWKES SCENARIO:
- HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE: The end state for a flat universe (Such as ours): All energy is evenly spread out, leaving no entropic gradients anywhere capable of performing work. No _usable_ energy would be left.
- HOMORPH: A transhuman or posthuman with a humanoid body.
- IA or INTELLIGENCE AMPLIFICATION:
- ISRU or IN-SITU RESOURCE UTILIZATION:
- ISO or INTELLIGENT SUPER-OBJECT: Motile or stationary computing cores intended for the implementation of posthuman intelligences, with sizes ranging from the ten kilometers up to highly-distributed intelligences.
- IMMORTALIST: A person who believes in the possibility of secular immortality, advocates it, and seeks to attain it.
- INFORMATION-THEORETIC DEATH:
- HAB (Habitat): An artificial environment that provides conditions for certain kinds of life that would not survive in the surrounding environment, especially for civilization and intelligent beings. See: Space Habitats, Dyson Sphere, Worldhouse.
- HEJIRA:
- HERM:
- HU or HUMAN:
- HIGHLY-DISTRIBUTED COMPUTATION:
- HIGHLY-DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE:
- JUPITER BRAIN: A set of Nodes suspended above a Jovian world or a brown dwarf, feeding on solar power, the magnetosphere, or radiated heat. Also refers to a computing system as large as a Jovian world.
- JOVIAN:
- KARDASCHEV SCALE:
- KOLMOGOROV COMPLEXITY:
- KUIPER BELT OBJECT:
- LINDE SCENARIO:
- LIGHTCRAFT: A lightcraft is a surface-to-orbit vehicle driven by laser or maser.
- LIGHT YEAR: (Symbol: LY) A unit of length for interstellar distances, the distance traveled by light in vacuum, in a year: 10e15 meters.
- LOFSTROM LOOP:
- LUDDISM
- MAGNETIC MONOPOLE:
- MEGASCALE ENGINEERING:
- MEGASTRUCTURE:
- MEME:
- MEMETICS:
- MEMIE:
- MESOSCALE:
- MORPHOLOGICAL FREEDOM:
- MONOPOLE-CATALYZED FUSION:
- MONOPOLIUM:
- MOON BRAIN:
- NANOCOMPUTER:
- NANOROBOT:
- NANOMEDICINE:
- NANOMANIPULATOR:
- NANOTECHNOLOGY:
- (MOLECULAR) NANOTECHNOLOGY or HYLONANO
- (MOLECULAR) MANUFACTURING
- (BIOLOGICAL) NANOTECHNOLOGY or BIONANO:
- (MIXED) NANOTECHNOLOGY or SYNANO:
- NEOPHILE:
- NEUROPRESERVATION:
- NICOLL-DYSON LASER:
- OMEGA POINT or TIPLERIST RELIGIOUS NONSENSE:
- OMEGA:
- O'NEILL CYLINDER:
- OPEN SOURCE:
- OPEN SOURCE ECOLOGY:
- OPEN MANUFACTURING:
- PATTERN IDENTITY THEORY:
- PHYLE or CLADE:
- PARAHUMAN:
- POSTHUMAN:
- QUANTUM COMPUTER:
- SANTA CLAUS MACHINE: See Genie.
- SAPIENT:
- SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE:
- SCANNING TUNNELLING MICROSCOPE:
- SENTIENCE QUOTIENT:
- SELF-REPLICATING MACHINE:
- SINGULARITY:
- SINGULARITARIAN:
- SKY HOOK:
- SPACE FOUNTAIN:
- SPOCK MEME:
- SOLID STATE SOCIETY:
- STAR LIFTING:
- STATITE:
- STRONG AI HYPOTHESIS:
- STEREOLITHOGRAPHY:
- TECHNOSPHERE:
- TERRAFORMING:
- TITHONUS SYNDROME:
- TIPLER CYLINDER:
- TIPLERIST:
- TRANSHUMAN:
- TRANSHUMANISM:
- TURING MACHINE:
- TURING TEST:
- UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING:
- UPLIFT:
- UPLOAD: An emulation of a biological's nervous system.
- UNIVERSAL ASSEMBLER: Am imaginary (Not even hypothethical) machine that can build any arbitrary chemical structure from computer instructions.
- UNIVERSAL CONSTRUCTOR: Originally a 2D cellular automaton capable of constructing itself and anything that can be constructed. Usually refers to an automaton with nanomanufacturing and macroscale manufacturing systems, capable of building a large set of products -- Including, most importantly, a copy of itself.
- UNIX:
- UTILITY FOG:
- VIRTUAL:
- VON NEUMANN MACHINE:
- VON NEUMANN PROBE:
- WETWARE:
- XENOBIOLOGY:
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