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  1. sophontnoun

    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.

  2. Etymology: First used in the 1966 works by Poul Anderson, coined by his wife Karen Anderson. See σοφός.

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  1. sophont

    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 described as the ability to perceive or infer information, and to retain it as knowledge to be applied towards adaptive behaviors within an environment or context. Intelligence is most often studied in humans but has also been observed in both non-human animals and in plants despite controversy as to whether some of these forms of life exhibit intelligence. Intelligence in computers or other machines is called artificial intelligence.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sophont in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sophont in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8


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