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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 3618516" data-attributes="member: 6533">I always liked the term Minds from the Culture novels, though they used Drones for smaller than ship sized things.But the Culture style AIs are not in the same class as what you are looking at for your story.Re: Celebrim.Good stuff.But I like my hunter-gatherer impulses.And the Frankenstein, Golum, and Pinnochio style mythologies are related to the robot stuff but distinct.  The very term robot is layered in issues of class, where the Gollum tales deal in a distinct set of ethical quandaries.And in the Frankenstein and Pinnochio story archetypes the issue isn't creating a thing it is specifically what is involved in recreating a human being.The gollum sub-set of these tales might hit a little bit closer to the problems you are describing in that the Gollum is specifically an appliance.If you were to go with what's implied in Celebrim's rants and Artificial Intelligence was still somehow insulting, than I would go with Produced or Designed Intelligences as distinct from Reproduced or Evolved Intelligences.Then you could keep the economic theme of robotism and stress the distinction between the economies of reproduction and production.</blockquote>