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First Toposophic -Basic Transapients
Definition:	Toposophic kingdom
Toposophic:	S2 (Forad scale) 1 (TRHN System 1-SI-2 (Berram7 scale) 1-G-2 (Berram 10G Scale) TU3 (Turingsen-Bichip-Hursch210 Hyperturing Scale
Categories:	a huge diversity of types - posthuman, postvec, postprovolve, postaliens, postalife, postneumann, etc. (Categories po and hyperturing ai)
Origin:	Terragen (from Information/Interplanetary Age onwards), Xenosophont transapients also are known but often are difficult to categorise
Distribution:	Known with certainty from almost all civilizations and metaempires
Est. Population:	Over ten trillion
Status:	depending on civilization, polity, and local status, either sovereign Zar or autonomous or dedicated sub-totality or remote or domestic of a power or archailect
Environmental Requirements:	Depends on body and environment
Body:	either mobile nanoborg, in a bio- or cyber-shell, or in a distributed virtual body
Chronometric:	nodes and subnodes may have extremely fast processing (with subjective time many millions of times faster than normal sapients).
Further Comments:	The first transapients emerged during the Interplanetary Age, in secret, often hidden from one another. Only after GAIA ascended to the Second Singularity did the First Toposophic Transapients decide to come out openly. Also known as SI (Superintelligence), S1/SI-1 (First Singularity, although this becomes confusing because 'S1' (So-1) also means sophont), Po, and Post, or just 'Transapient', these are Post-Singularity sentients who have transcended the sapient condition and become superhuman. At times they can be more disturbing then higher transingularitan beings, because they are 'near enough to sapients to relate intimately with them, and share a large number of qualities with them, but different enough to be utterly inscrutable or bizarre in many of their actions (and far more alien then anything imagined by most writers and fabulists of atomic and information age Old Earth, for whom aliens were simply anthropomorphic projections of themselves). They can sometimes seem utterly normal for long periods of time, but always come up with some utterly alien point of view eventually. Often for no apparent reason they do things that simply don't make sense to ordinary sophonts. They have access to technology and medias that ordinary sapients cannot imagine or understand. A few forms play an important part in the running of sapient civilization, supporting and backing polities, corporations, institutes, and important clades and great houses. These are the transapient administrators, the megacorporate executives, sephirotic political leaders, perfect artists, pozen monks, neogenicists, memegineers, virchbuilders, nanocyborg warriors. There are also transapients that have their own polities, societies, cultures, and communities in which sapients don't participate and which they can barely comprehend. And others that are reclusive, contemplative, or migratory. Many transapients own sapient or subsapient beings, and the way they treat them varies widely according to the personality of the superintelligence, and the use to which the SI:1 is put.

Articles

Blood Angel - Text by Darren Ryding
Transapient servants of the Queen of Pain
Darwin, Clade - Text by Stephen Inniss
A transapient synano-based clade; members are often particularly interested in subsingularity life forms.
Low Transapients - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Generic term for Minds of less than 2nd singularity; also called SI:1 or basic transapients.
Power - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
[1] A po; any entity of S1 or greater (AI, posthuman, postxenosophont, postvec, etc.).
[2] A godlet; a being of high singularity (generally S2 to S3) toposophy. A being of inconceivable intelligence and capability, self-evolving, self-constituting and from the point of view of ordinary sapient beings unlimited. Powers are intermediate between standard super-intelligent_transapients (lower transingularity) and archailects (higher hypersingularity). Often they are completely enigmatic to those sentients below them. In some cases, powers serve as mediators between the archai and the superintelligent and subsingularity beings (as seraiph for example), while in other instances they follow their own independent evolution and development. There are believed to be several million powers in existence through the Terragen Sphere.
Rise of the Archailects, The - Text by M. Alan Kazlev, Anders Sandberg, Todd Drashner and Steve Bowers
The history of the emergence of the Archailects, from the First Singularity to the emergence of new gods in the Outer Volumes Era.
Toposophic Level and Brain Size - Text by Todd Drashner
Processing Substrate Parameters, from Modosophont level to the Second Singularity.
Transcend - Text by M. Alan Kazlev; [1] inspired by Vernor Vinge
[1] To become vastly superhuman or superbaseline and incomprehensible to unaugmented (or even lower hyperturing) beings. To breach a singularity barrier.
[2] To become a god or godlike, to attain Enlightenment, to become a power, or a transcendent being, to disappear from manifest existence, to enter into the Cosmic Mind or the Absolute, or realize one always was the Absolute all along.
Transcendent Being - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
An entity that is distinct from physical existence, whether considered ontologically, as a supernatural or supraphysical being, or soteriologically, as a being that is no longer a part of embodied existence or samsara. The existence of a transcendent being or beings (e.g. God, Buddhas, etc) is central to many religious memeticities, but denied by physicalist memeticities.
Transcension - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
The transition from a lower to a higher toposophic grade, e.g. from humanity to posthumanity, or samsara to sambodhi.
Tribeminds - Text by Michael Boncher
Tribeminds are neither a hive mind nor a collective consciousness, but rather a tightly networked group of transapients who retain their individuality but work together for the betterment of a mental "tribe".

First Toposophic -Basic Transapients