sophont.
An intelligent being; a being with a base reasoning capacity roughly equivalent to or greater than that of a human being. The word does not apply to machines unless they have true artificial intelligence, rather than mere processing capacity.
Meaning & usage
An intelligent being; a being with a base reasoning capacity roughly equivalent to or greater than that of a human being. The word does not apply to machines unless they have true artificial intelligence, rather than mere processing capacity.
Where this word comes from
From sopho- + -ont. First used in the 1966 works by Poul Anderson, coined by his wife Karen Anderson.
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