Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-35122062-20180327103540/@comment-33557506-20180327193853

Genetically engineered and enhanced humans would be transhumans... or in the Primarch's case, posthumans, since they can't be really considered human anymore...

It is true that the origin of the world "transhuman" comes from transhumanist philosophies, but in popular culture a transhuman is just a a human being that has superior abilities thanks to science. You can call cyborgs or genetically modified people "transhumans" without adhering to any kind of philosophy...

Think of comicbook superhumans, or, as Marvel Comics call them, "metahumans"... Nietzche popularized the world "Superman", and DC's Superhuman was directly inspired on Nietzche; that doesn't mean superhero comics endorse Nietzche's theories...