So, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep???
Also commonly known as Androids, Replicants, Biosimms, Synthoids, Anvecs
Synthetic Humans, also commonly known as Androids, Replicants, Biosimms, Synthoids, Anvecs : Essentially a very sophisticated artificial (whether constructed or vatgrown) life-form, indistinguishable in surface appearance from a baseline human, and with a Human Equivalent (turing-grade) intelligence and AI self-awareness.
Definition: Different corporations, clades, and civilisations have used different technologies, and often the result has been very different as well. Some synthetic humans are as biological as any natural biont, except that they have been gengineered, tweaked, bionano-assembled and/or vatgrown rather than born naturally. Other replicants are completely mechanical; a mix of nanotechnology, micromachines, and artificial intelligence with human or better intelligence and versatility, a very biont-like vec, or “android” to use the Old Earth English term. This term is sometimes used in the variant ‘anvec’, meaning an anthropomorphic vec. The term Biosimm refers to simulated personalities which have been given a biological body, often created by bioprinting.
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