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Sophtware
Colloquial term used to describe sophont to transapient level software based lifeforms whether of virtual, ai, or upload origin. Sophtware entities are usually characterized as not being limited to a single dedicated processor to support their minds but instead operating as mobile blocks of self-referential code able to transfer themselves over information networks and among any group of processing substrates designed to accommodate them.

The original term was a typographical pun on 'software' in early Interplanetary Age English; pronunciation of the two words in most derived Anglic languages has since diverged.

 
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Aioids and SophtwareSophontologyVirtuals
 
Development Notes
Text by Tony Jones
expanded by Todd Drashner and Stephen Inniss
Initially published on 11 September 2005.

 
 
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