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MeatlingDerogatory term used by some members of vecs or
alife clades for bionts or for partially biont beings such as cyborgs.
mechGiant anthropomorphic machine or robot, may be non-sentient and controlled via DNI or biofeedback linkup from biont pilot, or sentient or sapient (turingrade); rarely superturing or hyperturing. In several cases, neumann and autofac-based mechs have established their own civilizations and polities
Mechanical EngineeringField of engineering field that studies the design and development of drytech mechanical devices, including virchmodelling; customizing from templates; fabrication methods; optimizing (e.g. dampening of noise and vibrations, including engine efficiency); mechanics; and materials and component testing.
MechanosynthesisForcing combinations of atoms in order to create nano- or pico- devices from a coarser density scale.
Mechanists, Mechanism1) In philosophy and metaphysics, a theory or belief that all observable phenomena can be explained by physical causes. This view gained currency among philosophers during the transition from the late Agricultural Age to the early Industrial Age. To varying degrees and in various forms it is a common memetic element in most cultures that bear Industrial or later levels of technology.
2) The belief that mechanical systems,
devices, or persons are fundamentally superior to biological systems, devices,
or persons. This may be in reference to the materials (“wet” versus “dry”
technology), to mode of origin (evolved versus designed), to both, or to other
more esoteric and less tangible concepts. Mechanists are generally considered
to be the counterparts of bioists. Just as bioists prefer or revere b-life,
mechanists give precedence to m-life, and prefer hylotech or
hylonanotech to biotech and bionano. A degree of mechanist belief is common
among vecs. Among the Sephirotic hypercultures, the exemplar of
this point of view is the Metasoft Version Tree, which is a strong but
relatively moderate proponent of Mechanist beliefs, and a counterpart to the Zoeific
Biopolity and its similarly moderate bioism. Some extreme Mechanists assert
that b-life forms and systems should be carefully restricted; others believe
that b-life should be entirely eradicated.
Mechology, Mechosystem
Colloquial term for the entire system of non-sophont machines, databases, programs, etc. that supports and controls the infrastructure throughout most of the civilized galaxy.
medical nanonanomedicine; the use of nanotechnology for medical purposes. One of the most important early applications of nano.
MedicineTreatment or prevention of diseases, injuries, and physical disorders in organic beings.
MedinaCapital of the Core Stellar Umma
Meditating Idols, World ofinner sphere Gaian Type world, first planet to be discovered with alien ruins (37th century c.e.) (pre-technological stone-carving society), stimulates scientific debates and religious cults, later became a center of cultists, scientific research, and tourism.
Large and diverse organization within the Sophic League somewhat analogous to the Solarian Guidance in its operations. Mediation is tasked with maintaining societal cohesion and resolving disputes among the varied and often contradictory philosophies of Sophic society as well as diplomatic contacts with other polities and empires, intertoposophic relations, some aspects of law enforcement, and limited defense issues when circumstances warrant it. Often it is the public face of Sophic government, both internally and externally, and is seen by many as the direct representative (if not a direct extension) of the Divine Sophia/us eirself.
meditationTechniques for modifying consciousness to attain enhanced, non-ordinary, or mystic states.
May involve postures (asanas), watching the breath, mantras, or mindfulness. Purists (especially Sophics and Xenodharmists) avoid use of augments, or use only minimal wet- bio- or cyber-ware. However, many meditators use hacks such as Patanjali and Buddhabiobot.
MediusDense industrial zone of the MPA.
It consists of a large star mining cage dyson swarm, laser antimatter production factories, femtotech exotic matter factories, deepwell mining sites and a multitude of wormholes.
more MeerlindaFourth planet of star B5C 2309 6753 [Mekelon Astrographic Institute Standard Catalogue], colloquially known as Darram's Star, a typical G4 corewards of NGC 6124. It was colonised in 3189 by the Shiftwranger clade of tweaks and became an important ultratech trading colony and close Negentropy Alliance affiliation. Site of the Meerlinda Nanodisaster
Anders Sandberg Meerlinda NanodisasterDestruction of all nanotech on Meerlinda by ancient xenosophont nano-regulators
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"Meeting at Googlehertz"famous meeting of metaempires at the Panvirt dyson Googlehertz Virchdrome which established the Central Alliance. There are a number of popular interactives, including the Novamedia one that lets ordinary nearbaselines pretend to be archailect agents
Meetings With Dgiipopular interactive fable and hypertext, co-authored by m2vi19-t34201 (later the Megsov Godling) and purported to be a record of m2vi19-t34201's experiences with Dgii144.
Megacorporations
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megaevolutionDramatic evolutionary change, for example the appearance of new phyla or even kingdoms of organisms. An example is the Cambrian explosion on old Earth. Natural megaevolution only occurs infrequently (often no more than once or several times on a garden world), but gengineers and biosculptors frequently create radical new organisms by biotech and bionano means
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MegapteraHomo megaptera; Whale sized merpeople from Zennor system in Libra. These water breathing adapts have powerful arms, a whale-like tail but no legs.
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MegartMegart (Mega Art) are artworks that are built on a planetary or stellar scale.
These may include the sculpting of planetary surfaces, speciality forms of stellar husbandry, redesign of entire planetary systems, or even stellar clusters. Megarts are the largest artworks ever created by terragen civilization. Ancient alien megarts have been found in various places as well. A good example of terragen a megart is the Kapella system of the Crystal Star Dominion. Megascale Engineering(also, megatechnology) Technology using energies, scales or methods (including self-replicating nano- and pico- technology and other advanced techniques) to build immense structures on an asteroidal, planetary, or even stellar scale.
Megascale MusicMusic on a massive scale
Megasovnickname given to the ascended heterodox Negentropist / objectivist SI:3 Godlect, the Mind of Sentients Socialistic Cybercray and Megasov Dyson
more Megasov DysonDyson Sphere created by the Megasov godling around Durran's Star
more Megastructural MigrationA societal phenomenon found on some, although by no means all, megastructures.
Megastructural Migrations or Moving Days as they are more commonly called, usually take place on those macrostructures with populations occupying only a small percentage of the structures entire habitable area/volume. more megastructureAn exceedingly large construct, typically measuring tens to thousands or even millions of kilometres along its greatest dimension. Megastructures may serve any of several puposes, not all of them mutually exclusive: archailect node, orbital for vec or biont habitation, computronium node for virch or ai life, large ISO, and work of art are some of the possibilities.
MeistersingerSophont space faring xenophyta. They are intelligent tool-users who have developed a nomadic interstellar civilization. They manipulate and perceive the world around them by means of a choir. First Contact was in 9203 at the prospector outpost Dhexte-iv on the Cygexba frontier, when they approached the star system to re-provision.
more MekelonHome to the Astrographic Institute. Part of the NoCoZo.
MeketuurAI/Alife culture common in the Kiyoshi datasphere. Largely developed from a bird-AI seed invented by Greenice of Palmas, the Meketuur proved influential in the MPA AI aesthetics through its insightful play with dimensionality and hyperbolicity.
Anders Sandberg MelanthiosEfficiency Maximization Paradigm system with former extensive asteroid belts, now half-complete dyson sphere.
MelderSix legged oxygen breathing symbiote/parasite with the ability to meld itself to a wide variety of lifeforms.
MellaUx 137femtomineral artifact of unknown but presumably transcended solipsist ai origin.
membot, memebot
membranotoposophyImportant subset of toposophy which maps transapient and similar cognitive states in terms of surfaces rather than as a linear scale or even a branching tree.
Meme
Self-reproducing and contagious idea, thought structure, or other information pattern which is propagated in ways similar to that of a gene.
meme-allergyA form of intolerance; a condition which causes a person to react in an unusually extreme manner when exposed to a specific semiotic stimulus, or meme-allergen.
Meme BugA sentient modified to memetically infect higher toposophics.
May be malicious or harmless. Meme Bugs are usually subsapient, but there are also sapient and even transapient variants. Their whole purpose is tied up with carrying the meme and infecting the target. Some types of Madverts are Meme Bugs that have been reversed engineered and given a different payload. meme-complex, memeplexA set of mutually-assisting memes which have co-evolved a symbiotic relationship.
Meme MuleA type of memenger, a sophont modified to transport memes from one place to another, but who is not aware of the purpose of the memes e carries.
Often the memes are of a higher toposophic level than the mule emself. While having a strong sense of duty and service to the transapient or archailect on whose behalf they are transporting the memes, Meme Mules are not themselves affected by the memes they carry. They may unload the memes via docking stations (DNI upload), or even through their unconscious actions may trigger the desired responses in the target society or environment. meme poolThe full diversity of memes accessible to a culture or individual. Learning languages and travelling are methods of expanding one's meme pool.
MemegeneerPerhaps the most disliked professional, and among the most feared.
Skilled at memetic creation, dispersion, mutation, agglomeration, and destruction, memegineers are the most flexible of the mindworker class of professionals. Memenger(pron. Me men jer)
Meme Messenger; a sophont that acts like messenger RNA in transmitting
memetic instructions from one society, polity, habitat, or civilization
to another, as part of the message transmission within the ecology of
an archailect.
Memetacorp, MetacorpNot a corporation, but an "instructor" or "controller" that through memetic association or template that organises a number of corporations.
Memetocorps are almost all transapient run and organised (often a metemtocorp is simply a transapient, or a group or loose association of such), and their suggestions and modus operandi can appear completely paradoxical, ridiculous, even counter-productive, to ordinary sapients. Nevertheless, they get results, often in the most unexpected way. memetic artcrafting skillful memes, spreading them into society. Partially a form of hacking, partially storytelling the form also has a somewhat competitive aspect.
Memetic demonsSelf replicating patterns using mental and social processes as their hardware and software.
memetic driftAccumulated mis-replications; the rate of memetic mutation or evolution. Recorded data tend to slow the memetic drift of dogmas.
memetic engineering, memgineeringThe practical application of memetics in order to influence behaviour, especially on a mass-scale.
Developed into a fine art by superbrights and hyperturings as early as the later Information Age and used consistently since. Propaganda and Advertising are crude form of memetic engineering. Some philosophers have observed that memetic engineering raise serious questions in free societies. Memetic Totemssentient/quasi-sentient meme acting as a guide or totem for a group of sophonts
memetic wara war of ideology and persuasion rather than weaponry or military might. Most transapients and archai uses memetics when dealing with lower toposophics and subsingulitaritans, few resort to anything as crude as actual hardware or software weaponry. Examples of memetic warriors might be PR agents, priest, poets, empaths.
memeticitya meme-complex, a coherent aggregation of component memes that itself constitutes a larger meme. Philosophies, ideologies, worldviews, and religions are all memeticities.
MemeterMemeters are a common anti-memetic interface between a sophont and an appropriate guardian (sophont or otherwise).
Memeters indicate both current and cumulative memetic affect on the bearer. The better models also simulate likely future actions and the memeload that such activity would engender. memetoselectionThe process whereby memes are favoured or selected against, according to darwinian mechanisms that favour the strongest memes. Memetoselection may be natural or artificial
MemexA meme designer expert system. Developed from the original advertising and marketing support systems of the Information Age into a sophisticated tool for memetic manipulation during the Interplanetary Era and the Federation Era.
memicryAn infection strategy in which a meme attempts to imitate the semiotics of another successful meme. Such as: pseudo-science, pseudo-rebelliousness, subversion by forgery, etc
MemoidA sophont who has programmed by a higher toposophic to carry and memetic payload and infect a target community or environment.
Unlike Meme Mules, Memoids are conscious of the meme, and have incorporated it into their being. They may often (but not necessarily) take ecclesiastic or other religious or quasi-religious form, seeing their work as a sacred duty. A subclass of memenger
Memory BoxData storage unit used to contain the mind-state. Also contains a digitized copy of owners biocode to allow the nano- construction of a new body if the original is destroyed.
Memory
Grubsthese relatively short, damp wormlike creatures were created deliberately in the 33rd century AT to fulfil a role - to help baselines organize and recall memory better.
Working
on then-ancient information indicating that baselines associate
memories strongly with olfactory sensory data, the researchers
generated a lifeform that could live indefinitely off of human
mucus with little or no aggravation of the mucus membranes. These
creatures would be induced to enter a sinus cavity where their
'body odor' could be used as a memory-baseline trigger. To change
trigger states, new grubs would be introduced which would eject the
old grub(s) for safe storage (later versions would cause memory
grubs not in contact with body temperature mucus to cocoon).
Depending
on the model and the system used, experiences could be tagged
with one or up to eight memory grub scents. Later variants allowed for
multiple grubs to
be generated with the same scent patterns - early ones were simply
grown with randomly generated scent patterns
Memory MoonSmall (100km diameter.), high-density storage ISO used extensively at Ken Ferjik and Alexandria in the Negentropy Alliance.
Memory Moons are manufactured directly by The Judge emself and reflect the Alliance's commitment to maximum preservation of information and resistance to entropy. Although the exact mechanism is unknown, it is rumored that Manus Dei level technology is employed to provide a level of data storage beyond anything normally accessible to sub-deity minds. Currently over one hundred Moons (113)are in use in Ker Ferjik local space, placed in various orbits around the planet. Alexandria, with its concentration on more general information storage, has over a thousand Moon-nodes orbiting its star.
memory retrieval memory storage, long-term memory storage for posthumans thousands of years old is often a problem. One popular (but clumsy) solution among some clades is to employ computronium implants, or even a small drone floating about for all the very-long-term memory storage. More elegant solutions involve a nanosome in each posthuman cell writing memory directly to redundant or specially set aside nuclear DNA
memotype1. The actual information-content of a meme, as
distinct from its sociotype.
2. A class of similar memes.
Micro-ElectroMechanical
System (MEMS)information and interplanetary age term for mechanical microbot or mesobot
mensaOn Terrestrial Class World, a flat-topped prominence with cliff-like edges (pl. mensae)
mental bodythe individualised center of mind or thought; the microcosmic or individual equivalent of the mental plane.
mental planeThe realm or universe of pure thought
In a number of esoteric and occult teachings such as Theosophy, Nuagism, and Classical Hermeticism, this is the plane or dimension of existence immediately beyond the astral plane, and transitional between the astral and the higher spiritual universes. However, definitions vary; in Magusism, and Cosmognosticism the mental plane is considered one more plane, divided into a number of subplanes, and not always higher than the astral or physical Mercurial studiesThe study of societies at a higher toposophic level than one's own
Mercurian Type
Terrestrial Class planet.
These are the larger cousins to the Cerean Type worlds, although
these planets have enough mass to have accumulated an appreciable metal
core. Although geologically
these worlds may remain dead or nearly so, they can show evidence of
ample activity from their past.
Mercury
Innermost planet in the Sol System, still a
major center
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MeritocracyRule by merit or natural abilities - not in the same sense as charismacracy. e.g. most of the great scientific Institutes are Meritocracies.
mermOne of six standard hu genders,
the others being male, herm, ferm, female, and neut. When occurring naturally among baselines and other hu clades (usually in prim or other non nanotech environments) this is male pseudohermophroditism, most often caused by a defective gene that prevents genetically male (XY chromosome) foetuses from absorbing androgen. The foetus develops testes, but otherwise continues to develop along female lines, although the vagina is often underdeveloped and there is no uterus. The child invariably appears as a girl. More usually, as a fashion or lifestyle choice or clade or peer mark, a combination of bionano, nanomedibots, and specific hormone treatment are used to alter the gender. The genitals are augmented with symbiotic bionano or bioborgonics. Nonsexual merms may feel "gender neutral" and often prefer the company of other merms.
The Mermo Lachbannia CaseInfamous murder case 6532 on Pardes where Mermo Lachbannia II, heir of the Baza-Lachbannia Shares of Cygexba, was found dead on her yacht more than 100 kilometres from the nearest turing-equivalent being.
Although initially diagnosed as a fatal case of sleep apnea, the local law enforcement software discovered significant traces of nanodust in her cabin. The yacht had received a sizable shipment of Pardean art objects and nanofactured food during the night, which had been distributed by the domobots. Apparently the smartstuff had not been dissolved on the deck as usual but placed in Mermo's room, where the dissolution freed enough carbon dioxide to suffocate her. Afterwards the domobots cleaned up the room from the dust, but not well enough. MerpeopleThe earliest entirely new artificial Human species, Homo Aquaticus has diversified into numerous clades, including the Merpeople of Nova Terra and Zennor
Merrion Merrion ApogeeNoCoZo world, one of the centers of the Artists of Gleia
mesoscale mesobot
mesonParticles composed of a quark and an antiquark; the lowest mass mesons (the pi and K mesons) have masses intermediate between leptons and baryons. All mesons are unstable.
meson gunHi-tech particle beam weapons that create high energy mesons and direct them at targets.
Mesozoic EraGeological era, Earth, lasting from about 248 to 65 million years ago, popularly known as the Age of Reptiles (more correctly, Age of Archosaurs).
During this long era of Earth history, the climate was tropical and the continents gathered in only one or a few land-masses (often formed into large islands by the shallow seas). Dinosaurs dominated the land, while ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and other reptiles flourished in the ocean, and pterosaurs in the air. Mammals were common but small and shrew-like, mostly nocturnal. Plants included ferns, equistales ("horsetails"), and gymnosperms like cycads, ginkgo, conifers. Among many types of marine invertebrates, the Cephalopods - particularily the spiral-shelled Ammonites and Belemnites (squid-like forms with an internal shell) - were particularily common . The era opened with a Class 5 mass-extinction and closed with a Class 4 one. The era is divided into three periods - the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. A number of authentic Mesozoic ecosystems have been established using lazurogeneered stock, including the biomes and orbitals of Owen (Utopia Sphere), the Paleo Habitats (FAS), the vast Mesozoic Ring (MPA), and the ever popular complex of Cyberian Dino Virchworlds.
metacomplexitycomplexity in which even the relations between the various complexities that make up the whole is complex
MetacorpophobiaFear by ludd or sapient run corporate administrators that their interest and businesses will be subverted by a Memetocorp.
While sometimes mere paranoia, such fears are not infrequently based on real experiences
Meta-ideaNon-ambiguous, interpretation-free and (most times) non-redundant description of an idea, sensation, thought or memory.
Meta-idea languagesLanguages, usually parallel, where symbols and tokens are meta-ideas.
Commonly used by S^4 or greater entities (highest transapients and archailects). These languages can, in principle, describe an idea with perfection, and describe sensation and memory records free of interpretation. Thus, a interlocutor can experience something just through its description. meta-meme
Meta-Golden RuleFirst formulated by Old Earth human I. J. Good. Originally paraphrased (and still commonly expressed as) as "Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your superiors." More commonly - "treat SI:<n as you would want SI:>n to treat you; where "you" = SI:n"; Many ordinary sapients find it hard to accept, since the game-theoretic payoff is difficult to articulate in non-transapient conceptualology.
metalwhen referring to stars is used slightly differently to the traditional chemical sense and refers to elements heavier than helium.
metallic bondChemical bond responsible for the crystalline structure of pure metals.
Metallurgical EngineeringThe fabrication, processing, refining, and utilization of metals and alloys, including both alloys made from naturally occurring metals, and an almost limitless variety of nanocomposites and pico-engineered alloys, and the design and fabrication of such neometals. Also involves plants and equipment for processing metals and creating new alloys.
MetallurgyThe study of metals, including their properties and processing, and the use of nano and picotech (nanometallurgy and picometallurgy) to create completely new alloys
MetamortalistsNear-baselines to low singularity individuals who believe that the written, spoken, sung and otherwise transmitted culture(s) that they belong to constitute a super/ or meta/individual which is potentially immortal and possibly even conscious, utilising all available media and recording technology to ensure the postulated meta individual is as complete as possible. (mainly found in Sophic League, Communion of Worlds, Terran Federation)
metaphysicsIn philosophy - deals with topics like ontology, cosmology, objective toposophy, abstract theology, etc. In esotericist with the nature of realities beyond the physical. In common sapient understanding these two distinct approaches are generally confused
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Metasoft Version Tree Metasoft Baseline ReservesWorlds and habitats set aside by the Metasoft Version Tree to preserve the baseline human phenotype
meteorologyThe study of the weather
meteora small piece of stone or piece of ore travelling through space, almost always in a solar system. Most are left over from asteroidal or cometary debris. Large meteors are rare.
methane (CH4) an odorless, colorless, flammable gas that forms an important part of the atmosphere of many eogaian, eovenusian, and jovian worlds
Methuselahsearly hu clade designed for maximum lifespan even without medical nano
more metric yearOne Earth (or Lunar) year, used by some polities and clades as a galactic standard measurement of time (however the Coronese, Edenese and other Years are often used as well or instead)
metrologyThe science of precise measurement, dealing with a variety of physical properties of materials and structures and both simple and complex systems, on both the nano (nanometrology) and macro scale, and the various associated tools and techniques for this. An important element in engineering design and manufacturing process.
