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Immortality vs Cyberimmortality - What's the difference?

immortality | cyberimmortality |

As nouns the difference between immortality and cyberimmortality

is that immortality is (fiction|religion|mythology|biology) the condition of being immortal while cyberimmortality is a hypothetical form of immortality in which a person's consciousness, memories, etc are transferred into a computer system.

immortality

English

Noun

  • (fiction, religion, mythology, biology) The condition of being immortal.
    • In Greek mythology, (Tithonus) was granted immortality but not eternal youth.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * immortal * mortality

    See also

    * elixir of life * undead * ("immortality" on Wikipedia) English words suffixed with -ality English words suffixed with -ity

    cyberimmortality

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A hypothetical form of immortality in which a person's consciousness, memories, etc. are transferred into a computer system.
  • * 1999 , Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein, Cyberfeminism: connectivity, critique and creativity (page 207)
    • ...it is quite likely that it will be a white male 'cyberelite' who will invest in cyberimmortality for themselves. Yet at the same time they will need women as real and virtual sex objects as well as menial workers/emotional supporters for their travails/travels in cyberspace.
  • * 2011 , Gregory R Hansell, William Grassie, H+/-: Transhumanism and Its Critics (page 42)
    • It is this embodiment that transhumanism seeks to transcend in its most radical program of cyberimmortality .