Posts tagged with “biology”
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- Fragments of a superintelligence melded with a human-level intellect.
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- A Fire Upon the Deep
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- A person who has been made into a cognitive computer.
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- A Deepness in the Sky
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- A carnivore.
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- The Star Diaries: The Eighth Voyage
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- Seasonal vegetation that grows into irregular temporary housing.
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- Pairing of ‘adapt’ and ‘plant’.
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- Central Station
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- Recreational use of the anti-cancer drug Reboot™ for the purpose of experiencing its notable gender-reassignment side effect.
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- Changes
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- A variety of shrub native to Belzagor, able to detect nearby motion and withdraw its leaves as a defence against predators.
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- Downward To The Earth
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- To commit evolutionary self-deselection (suicide).
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- Charles Darwin; evolution of species by natural selection.
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- Accelerando
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- The act of transferring the extracted mind-state of a dead person into a fresh body.
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- Derived from rĕ- (again) and veniō (“I come”).
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- Surface Detail
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- The essence of a person’s phylogenetic tradition.
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- Leptós (thin).
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- The Godwhale
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- A street drug that stimulates rapid cognition, having novotrophin-B and MDMA as ingredients.
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- Phonetic transcription of “sense-a-wonder”.
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- Accelerando
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- A working animal genetically engineered to attain human likeness.
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- Andrós (“of man”) in combination with morphḗ (shape).
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- Emphyrio
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- A biomechatronic robot.
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- Portmanteau of ‘biological’ and ‘robot’.
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- Rendezvous With Rama