Corelevance
“The condition in which humans and humanoid robots make each other more relevant rather than less.”
Etymology
co- (together, mutual) + relevance (the quality of being meaningfully connected to what matters). Pronounced /ˌkoʊ ˈrɛləvəns/. Coined as the direct counter to "irrelevance," the central fear of the humanoid-robot era.
Context
Each is valued for what the other cannot provide, and neither's worth is measured against the other's. Corelevance describes a future of abundant humanoid robots in which human purpose grows alongside machine capability instead of shrinking beneath it. "Billions of robots won't end human purpose. They'll establish corelevance." The Star Trek crews lived in corelevance: Data needed the crew's judgment, and the crew needed Data's capacity. Distinguished from symbiosis (organisms living together — mutual benefit, not meaning and value); from cyborgism and transhumanism (merging human and machine — corelevance keeps the two distinct); and from automation and replacement (one side's value displacing the other's). Related: Duocene, the era in which corelevance is the norm.
An invented coinage from the Xenolexica project — a word born from genuine need to expand human understanding.
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