Disembodied. Not embodied; not collected into a body; as, unembodied militia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Free from a corporeal body; disembodied.
adjective Not embodied; not collected into a body; not yet organized.
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adjective Incorporeal; not possessed of a body.
adjective :
adjective especially of armed multitudes Not united in a regimented structure; lacking structure and order.
adjective Existing or operating without involvement by the body; solely mental or intellectual; “ungrounded”, “heady”.
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adjective not having a material body
Etymologies
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un- + embodied
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Examples
The beauty of colour is also the outcome of a unification: it derives from shape, from the conquest of the darkness inherent in Matter by the pouring-in of light, the unembodied, which is a Rational-Principle and an
This makes it all the more evident that the unembodied is the free; to this our self-disposal is to be referred; herein lies our will which remains free and self-disposing in spite of any orders which it may necessarily utter to meet the external.
I hope so, given that the unidentified, unembodied, possibly deceased designer has an inordinate fondness for bacteria, “irreducibly complex” flagella and all.
Then they apply that inference to potential candidates – human beings, chimps, neurological connections, ETI, panspermia directors, human-like minds, unembodied intelligent beings, etc.
I hope so, given that the unidentified, unembodied, possibly deceased designer has an inordinate fondness for bacteria, “irreducibly complex” flagella and all. fnxtr replied to comment from Roger
"It may even be possible to make empirically-based inferences about the intentions of the several designers: the telos of individual unembodied designers may be empirically accessible to us."
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