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1. Sapient being of less than transapient level. 0<SI<1 on the Berram7 Singularity Scale ( namely sapient, turingrade to superturing and any self-aware being under first singularity)

adj.
1. Possessing a level of sapience equal to 0<SI<1 on the Berram7 Singularity Scale.
2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of, a modosophont.

Metasoft colony; was about to fall to the Amalgamation in 6948 but self-destructed before.

Capable of linking together into a multitude of functional shapes, and of sustaining a basic personality when linked, these sand-grain sized microvecs are among the remarkable products of baseline human technology produced by the Ordinaries of Elsirac Ring.

In hu (especially Indian Hindu ethnic) mysticism, liberation, release, transcendence of embodied existence. The Hindu equivalent term to Nirvana. Also called Mukti, Kaivalya, etc.

Electronics at the molecular (mesotech and nanotech) scale

1. Traditionally, two or more atoms or ordinary matter, joined together by properties of a shared electron cloud and forming a chemical bond. The smallest unit of a substance that can retain all the properties of that substance.
   
   
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3. 2) Two or more exotic atoms, linked together in a way that is analogous to the bonds formed between ordinary atoms. The forces involved may not involve ordinary electrons and protons in such cases, and the analogy is rather loose. No natural "molecules" of this kind are known to exist; the "atoms" that give rise to them are composed of particles that are extremely rare or naturally short-lived. All such materials are apparently the result of advanced sophont or transapient technology, whether Terragen or otherwise.
   
   

Branch of biology that deals with organic life on a molecular level

Diverse phylum of terragen soft-bodied organisms.

Model of Memetic Interactions

A early post-nanoswarm model of how memes interact and, in certain conditions, generate steady states of attraction and repulsion within a limited number of sophonts. While outdated and sociopolitically unpalatable to many modern polities, it is still utilized in some schools of baseline memetics as an early step in generating ongoing memetic interactions in a calculable form.

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Order of alife archaeologists constructed by the Artists of Gleia to help unravel the beauty and secrets of the cosmos.

(1) worship of an AI, especially an archailect, as the one supreme Archailect
(2) Belief that all the higher toposophics are different aspects of a single Mind

Rule by a king or a queen, usually of one family or dynasty or aristocratic clan or House that manages to acquire an empire. Pure Monarchy, although common in medieval and iron age Earth, has been rare since the beginning of the Industrial Age. In the present age, however, there are however numerous petty egomaniacs and eccentrics throughout the galaxy who have set up their own principalities, kingdoms and so on as minor polities. Usually these encompass, at the very most, a single hab or world and do not last for more than a few hundred years. The big so-called Monarchies are actually Theocracies or AIcracies, depending on one's point of view. The ruling AI empowers the local sovereign, who thus becomes, in the archaic phrase, "the representative of God on Earth".

Reclusive spiritual-contemplative communal lifestyle option, especially popular in the Sophic League and among mystic-orientated sophonts in general.

Monkey is a common term, used indiscriminately for two groups of mid-sized Old Earth primates that were not humans, other apes, or "prosimians" (lemurs, galagos, etc.), though they were not otherwise closely related.

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Philosophical memeticity that asserts that Reality at its most fundamental is unitary, or comprised only of one substance. Various forms of monism include materialistic monism, pantheistic monism, acosmic monism, noetic monism, informational monism, etc.

an elementary particle that carry a unit of magnetic charge

a very dense, very strong physical material made from monopoles and protons with many useful properties

a phyle, clade, or any other group, the members of which share a common ancestry. Contrast with polyphyle

important Metasoft world

Religious and philosophical belief that one's own AI as the one that will eventually grow into the template of Omega. Monomegism became the ideological underpinning or at least undercurrent of much of the emerging empires and their continued expansion in the age of Empires.

Religious paradigm or meme-group, as distinguished from deism polytheism, pantheism or atheism, that professes the existence of a personal, transcendent God (whether archailect or supernatural) who created, preserves and governs the world.

major habitat / polity in a polar orbit around Green (Beta Virginis V).

On Terrestrial Class World, a mountain or similar geographic feature (pl. montes)

clothing, bionano or hylonano augments that alter themselves, or even the appearance of the wearer/user, according to the mood of that individual.

Darro Local Sector, Non-Coercive Zone - the system from which Fire dancing originated, and to which the art form is still mostly limited.

Para-mythological folk heroine from the early interplanetary age. Sighted many times but never confirmed to exist. Likely classed as a superior. True origins remain unknown.

Originally, a group of Teleost fishes from the rivers and lakes of Old Earth's Africa, comprising 18 genera and some 200 species. By the late Information Age, most were extinct in the wild. The surviving species of mormyrids have attracted the attention of provolution groups because of their large brains and apparent intelligence. There are several minor clades of Actie provolves based on one or more of the mormyrids, and one moderately well known clade, the Kanumae.

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Planet where in 5840 the statesbeing and power Ho'th'hss'to'luh underwent ascencion to at least second singularity level, possibly more. The computronium conglomerate housing the post-To'u'l association has become known as Ho'th'hss'lho University, an important nexus of post-To'u'l and posthuman education in the middle region MPA.

originally resource rich system centred on red dwarf-brown-dwarf pair, the entire system since converted to the Thermal Virtopia Dyson Sphere, capital of the Efficiency Maximization Paradigm

The shape of something, especially the organic form of a living being. Also, the study of how morphology is regulated in complex systems such as developing tissues or nanosystems.

The option and decision to alter one's bodily form at will through technologies such as bodymods, genetic engineering, nanotechnology, uploading, etc.

1. In biology, a shared shape and general appearance, regardless or the presence or absence of any common origin or relationship. The term may be applied to cells or organelles, or to parts of organisms such as scales or leaves, to whole organisms, or even to multi-species colonies of symbiotic organisms. Morphotype is a convenient concept when the relationships between similar entities is unclear, as may be the case in paleontology, or when it is the morphological similarities themselves that are of primary interest, as in comparative xenobiology. Xenobiologists, for instance, may speak of the 'prokaryotic morphotype' in describing simpler life forms on a variety of unrelated life-bearing worlds.
   
   
2. With regard to the study of clades, any given physical form or appearance. A human nearbaseline, a human tweak, and a human superior, might all exhibit the same morphotype, even if they are mutually infertile, have separate derivations from basic human stock, and have very different abilities and psychologies. Likewise two vecs, or even two clades of vecs, might share a morphotype but have very different origins and behaviour. The term "morphotype" is sometimes used in describing a-life, in reference to common characteristics of computronium use and software representation in AIs and other infomorphs. Most, however, restrict the term’s use to description of hylotech or biological life forms.
   
   

Mortalists, who largely comprise baselines and nearbaselines, but also a number of "forward-looking" su and S>1 posthumans, oppose life-extension treatments which allow a person to cheat death indefinitely.

Self-emergent autowar clade, recently embarked on migration to the galactic core

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A more popular term for Megastructural Migration

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