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sophont

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Noun — An intelligent creature whose baseline reasoning ability is at least equal to that of a human; the term excludes machines unless they possess genuine artificial intelligence rather than simple processing power.

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Formed from sopho- and -ont. First used in Poul Anderson's 1966 works, coined by his wife Karen Anderson.

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