Personoid

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Personoid is the concept coined by Stanisław Lem, a Polish science-fiction writer, in Non Serviam, from his book A Perfect Vacuum (1971). His personoids are an abstraction of functions of human mind and they live in computers; they do not need any human-like physical body.

In cognitive and software modeling, personoid is a research approach to the development of intelligent autonomous agents. In frame of the IPK (Information, Preferences, Knowledge) architecture, it is a framework of abstract intelligent agent with a cognitive and structural intelligence. It can be seen as an essence of high intelligent entities.

From the philosophical and

carriers of a culture. According to N. Gessler, the personoids study can be a base for the research on artificial culture
and culture evolution.

Personoids on TV and cinema

  • Welt am Draht (1973)
  • The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

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