Transhumanism / Posthumanism
Transhumanism holds that the human condition — mortality, cognitive limitation, physical frailty — is a temporary engineering problem rather than a fixed essence. The observer is fundamentally mutable and upgradable. Embodiment, mortality, and cognitive limits are contingent features that technology can and should transcend.
I. Time
| Extent | Infinite |
| Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Grain | Continuous |
| Freedom | Non-Deterministic |
| Traversability | Branching |
| Dimensionality | One |
| Direction | Uni-directional |
Time is emergent and infinite — it extends indefinitely into a future of radical technological transformation. Time is continuous, linear, and uni-directional, but the transhumanist seeks to overcome time's constraints through life extension, mind uploading, and technological acceleration. The Singularity represents a threshold beyond which time's meaning changes fundamentally.
II. Space
| Extent | Infinite |
| Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Curvature | Curved |
| Dimensionality | Three |
| Locality | Non-local |
Space is emergent and infinite — the transhumanist aspires to transcend spatial limitations through space colonization, virtual reality, and digital existence. Space is curved and non-local in the context of physics, but technology can overcome spatial barriers. Dimensionality is N because virtual environments and digital substrates are not bound by three physical dimensions.
III. Matter
| Extent | Finite |
| Ontological Status | Substantival |
| Conservation | Conserved |
| Dimensionality | Three |
| Locality | Local |
Matter is emergent and finite — but the transhumanist seeks to transcend material limitations through nanotechnology, synthetic biology, and substrate-independent minds. Matter is non-conserved in the sense that radical transformation (not mere conservation) is the goal. It is non-local because digital and virtual existence liberates the observer from dependence on a particular material body.
IV. Observer
| Time Instance | Multiple |
| Space Instance | Multiple |
| Extent of Knowledge | Total |
| Retainment of Knowledge | Total |
| Physicality | Both |
| Agency | Active |
| Number | Plural |
V. Energy
Finite and substantival — energy is a real, physical resource governed by thermodynamic laws; it is the raw material that powers both biological and technological systems. Conservation: Conserved — energy conservation is a hard constraint that even transhumanist ambitions must respect; Dyson spheres and similar megastructures aim to maximize energy capture within conservation laws. Dispersibility: Irreversible — entropy remains the ultimate constraint; transhumanism seeks to delay and manage entropic degradation through technology but acknowledges the thermodynamic arrow cannot be reversed.
VI. Information
Information is substrate-independent — consciousness can be uploaded, transferred, and preserved as information patterns. The mind is software; the body is hardware. Information is substantival because it is the essence of mind and reality. It is conserved because digital information can be perfectly copied and preserved. It is discrete because digital computation operates on bits.