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infomorph

The English word “infomorph” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A virtual body of information that may possess emergent features such as personality.

Etymology

From info- + -morph. Coined in Charles Platt's 1991 novel The Silicon Man, where it refers to a single biological consciousness transferred into a computer.

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