# I'm a... I'm a... What am I? (Let's invent a term) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 28, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327 "2010-09-28T06:04:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/1 "2010-09-28T06:04:21Z")
I strongly feel that humans are superior to electronic devices. (Not all humans, of course, but in general. _I_ certainly am.) What kind of bigotry is that? I’ve heard “carbonist” to describe people who feel carbon-based life forms are superior to other life forms, but I wouldn’t call electronic devices a “life form”. “Humanist” has a different meaning. I am stumped for a term. Help me out. Thx. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/2 "2010-09-28T06:19:21Z")
You’re a biologist! No, wait… ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/3 "2010-09-28T06:29:27Z")
biophile? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/4 "2010-09-28T06:42:31Z")
Biophilic? Mysdroidist? ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/5 "2010-09-28T07:37:48Z")
Meatbag. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/6 "2010-09-28T07:48:19Z")
I think I’d go with “sane.” It’s the people who believe humans are inferior to electronics you need to worry about. ---
**Author:** ![StrangeBird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@StrangeBird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrangeBird)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/7 "2010-09-28T07:59:30Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Meatbag. Hey, baby, want to kill all humans? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FuzzyOgre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@FuzzyOgre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuzzyOgre)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/8 "2010-09-28T09:29:55Z")
Some form of luddite? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/9 "2010-09-28T09:53:28Z")
A Machinist. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/10 "2010-09-28T11:33:03Z")
Philosapienist? Philohomo? That can’t be right. Misandroid, as opposed to a Misanthrope Human Firster Unassimilated 😉 ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/11 "2010-09-28T11:44:50Z")
Sentientist. ---
**Author:** ![BleizDu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@BleizDu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BleizDu)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/12 "2010-09-28T11:47:17Z")
Bene Gesserit ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/13 "2010-09-28T12:27:06Z")
A Bio-Supremacist. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/14 "2010-09-28T14:31:08Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > A Bio-Supremacist. Ooo - I like this one. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/15 "2010-09-28T15:32:29Z")
> [@Karen\_Lingel](#): > > I strongly feel that humans are superior to electronic devices. (Not all humans, of course, but in general. _I_ certainly am.) > > What kind of bigotry is that? I’ve heard “carbonist” to describe people who feel carbon-based life forms are superior to other life forms, but I wouldn’t call electronic devices a “life form”. “Humanist” has a different meaning. > > I am stumped for a term. Help me out. Thx. Let’s clarify: Do you mean that you consider human beings to be superior to all currently existing electronic devices? Or do you mean that, in an Asimovian\* world of sentient robots, you’d consider the organic humans to be superior to the robots, no matter how smart or skillful they got? Or do you mean that you believe that there never can or will be electronic devices that rival human beings (human-like robots; computers that could pass a Turing test, etc.)? \*not the Doper ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/16 "2010-09-28T18:07:04Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Do you mean that you consider human beings to be superior to all currently existing electronic devices? > > Or do you mean that, in an Asimovian\* world of sentient robots, you’d consider the organic humans to be superior to the robots, no matter how smart or skillful they got? > > Or do you mean that you believe that there never can or will be electronic devices that rival human beings (human-like robots; computers that could pass a Turing test, etc.)? Definitely “yes” to #1 and #3. If I am wrong about #3 and we eventually produce actual sentient robots (#2), then I will reevaluate my bigotry. (If they have soft lips and skillful hands, they may actually be superior to men.) ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/17 "2010-09-28T18:08:22Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Sentientist. This is my winner so far… ---
**Author:** ![steronz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steronz/32/11765_2.png) [@steronz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steronz)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/18 "2010-09-28T18:08:26Z")
Beep boop beep. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/19 "2010-09-28T19:54:44Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > Beep boop beep. Hmm… Who is the love child of Betty Boop and the Road Runner? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327/20 "2010-09-28T19:59:10Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > > [@steronz](#): > > > > Beep boop beep. > > Hmm… Who is the love child of Betty Boop and the Road Runner? [Alex Trebek] Correct for a thousand; and **tdn** , you’re in control of the board. Select another category. [/Alex Trebek] Sorry, couldn’t resist. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-im-a-what-am-i-lets-invent-a-term/555327.md?page=2)