Personoid is the concept coined by
Stanisław Lem
Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories are of satirical ...
, 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
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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
In artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent (IA) is anything which perceives its environment, takes actions autonomously in order to achieve goals, and may improve its performance with learning or may use knowledge. They may be simple or ...
with a cognitive and structural intelligence. It can be seen as an essence of high intelligent entities.
From the philosophical and
systemics perspectives, personoid societies can also be seen as the
carriers of a
culture
Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups ...
. 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)
See also
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Android
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Humanoid
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Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. More generally, it can be des ...
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...
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Culture
Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups ...
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Computer Science
Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...
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Cognitive Science
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Anticipatory science
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Memetics
References
* Stanisław Lem's book ''Próżnia Doskonała'' (1971). The collection of book reviews of nonexistent books. Translated into English by Michael Kandel as ''
A Perfect Vacuum'' (1983).
Personetics
Personoids Organizations Framework: An Approach to Highly Autonomous Software Architectures,
ENEA Report (1998).
Paradigms of Personoids, Adam M. Gadomski 1997.
Nicholas Gessler. In EVOLUTION IN THE COMPUTER AGE - Proceedings of the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, edited by David B. and Gary B. Fogel. Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury, Massachusetts (2002).
Hypothetical technology
Computing terminology
Fiction about computing
Scientific method
Artificial intelligence
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