Beings
- Alternative intelligences
- Beings of pure mentality
- Hive minds
- Infomorphs—memories, characters, and consciences of persons being uploaded to a computer or storage media
- Noosphere—the "sphere of human thought"
- Solipsism & Solipsism syndrome—the idea that one's own mind is all that exists.
- Simulated consciousness (science fiction)
- Artificial intelligence
- Androids and Gynoids
- Cyborgs
- Robots and humanoid robots: Robots in fiction
- Replicants
- Simulated consciousness (science fiction)
- Characters
- The Absent-minded professor
- The Detective
- The Golem
- The Ignorant Friend
- Redshirt
- The Robot Clone
- The Robot Servant
- The Scientist
- The Mad Scientist
- The Amoral Scientist
- The Heroic Scientist
- The Wedge
- Clones
- Dinosaurs
- Extraterrestrial life (see Extraterrestrial life in culture)
- Alien invasion
- Astrobiology
- Benevolent aliens
- God-like aliens
- First contact
- Principles of non-interference (e.g. Prime Directive)
- Message from space
- Living planets (both sentinent and non-sentinent)
- Mutants
- Shapeshifters
- Superhumans
- Symbionts
- UFOs
- Uplifted animals—using technology to "raise" non-human animals to human evolutionary levels
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