Etymology

infomorph

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Today it means: A virtual body of information that may possess emergent features such as personality. Full definition →

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The story

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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