Questão de Inglês — Sinônimos | Synonyms — CESPE / CEBRASPE 2025
InglêsSinônimos | Synonyms
- Código
- ce221688
- Banca
- CESPE / CEBRASPE
- Órgão
- UERR
- Ano
- 2025
- Nível
- Médio
- Cargo
- Vestibular
Text 1A3-II
The argument for the existence of life in different places in
the universe can lead to endless and aimless (but fascinating)
speculation. Why assume that aliens so far advanced
technologically are still bound by the chains of aging bodies?
As we see our own technology advancing, and our minds
becoming ever more entangled with digital devices, we can
envision a kind of transhuman future whereby our mind’s
essence, what we (loosely) identify with our inner self and
memories, becomes immaterial, soullike, tethered to reality
through information alone. In his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey,
Arthur C. Clarke speculated that aliens would have broken away
from carbon-based and robotic machine structures so “that the
mind would eventually free itself from matter (…) and if there is
anything beyond that, its name could only be God.”
This is where astrotheology begins, as we envision aliens
as the techno-version of godlike creatures, with the obvious
subtext that one day we are going to get there too. So, not only is
their technology magic to us, but their very existence becomes
equivalent to a supernatural presence — omniscient,
omnipresent, and undetectable by our feeble human senses and
machines. Such aliens are indistinguishable from gods inhabiting
the heavenly realm, being as elusive as countless deities have
been throughout human history. They exist only in that intangible
dimension of faith.
Marcelo Gleiser. The dawn of a mindful universe: a manifesto for humanity’s future.
HarperOne, San Francisco (CA) (adapted).
The word “envision”, in “as we envision aliens” (first sentence of the second paragraph of text 1A3-II), has a similar meaning to
- Aimagine.
- Brelease.
- Cignore.
- Danticipate.
- Eobjectify.