Personoid is the concept coined by

Stanisław Lem Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fi ...

, 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 The mind is that which thinks, feels, perceives, imagines, remembers, and wills. It covers the totality of mental phenomena, including both conscious processes, through which an individual is aware of external and internal circumstances ...

and they live in computers; they do not need any human-like physical body. In

cognitive Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses all aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as: perception, attention, thought, ...

and

software Software consists of computer programs that instruct the Execution (computing), execution of a computer. Software also includes design documents and specifications. The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...

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 is an entity that Machine perception, perceives its environment, takes actions autonomously to achieve goals, and may improve its performance through machine learning or by acquiring knowledge r ...

with a cognitive and structural intelligence. It can be seen as an essence of high intelligent entities. From the philosophical and

systemics In the context of systems science and systems philosophy, systemics is an initiative to study systems. It is an attempt at developing logical, mathematical, engineering and philosophical paradigms and frameworks in which physical, technological, ...

perspectives, personoid societies can also be seen as the carriers of a

culture Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and Social norm, norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, Social norm, customs, capabilities, Attitude (psychology), attitudes ...

. 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)

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
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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 {{future-stub

Personoids on TV and cinema

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