"First Toposophic" - Basic Transapients
Transapients, Posthumans
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"First Toposophic" - Basic TransapientsTransapients, Posthumans
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Basic Transapients - Data Panel
Definition: Toposophic kingdom Toposophic: S^2 (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 Distribution: Known with certainty from almost all civilizations and metaempires Est. Population: at least several 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 nano- or (more rarely) pico- borg, in a bio- or cyber-shell, or in distributed virch Chronometric: nodes and subnodes may have extremely fast processing (with subjective time many millions of times faster than normal sapients). Further Comments: 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. |
