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[1] A simulation of part of a person's personality, created in order to carry out a task not requiring the entire person.
[2] An incomplete copy, whether corrupted or because of poor or incomplete upload.

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Aioids and Sophtware

High Tech Societies

Software

Virtual/Infotech

Development Notes

Text by Greg Bear, in Anders Sandberg's Transhuman Terminology, and M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 19 December 2001.

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