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Mindkind
Generic clade-neutral Anglic term for all intelligent, sentient beings, regardless of nature or origin. Mindkind as a category includes an almost infinite diversity of types, including entities which are fully sophont and self-aware, as well as others which have much stranger characteristics such as animins and xenosophonts.
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In Jungism the collective repository of unconscious thoughts, feelings, and memories that pertain to an entire clade, rather than an individual. Also supposed to be the source of archetypes, although this is disputed by some schools. - Conscious Mind - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
The part of the psyche of any being that experiences awareness and consciousness. In evolved bionts there is a large demarcation between conscious and unconscious; in augmented cyborgs, vecs, and ai or even in neogens the distinction is less clear. - Consciousness (Phenomenology)
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Illegal profession in many if not most clades or polities. Specializes in extracting information from the mental processes of a target sophont. The best mindhackers can extract full information replicas without the target recognizing this, but that is exceedingly rare without a transapient intellectual rating. Mindworker profession. - Mindjacking
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Small program that runs on the host's exoself. Used to perform several tasks that are server-specific in several virch environments, such as authentication. Some servers will require such authentication even before letting the mind make contact with their internal environment, and thus upload such applets. - Mindworker - Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Diverse superfield of expertise pertaining to working with the psyche of a sentient being. Includes practical psychology, psycho-sociology, memetic engineering, and many other fields and subfields. - Universal Mind
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Text by M. Alan Kazlev
Initially published on 08 December 2001.
Initially published on 08 December 2001.
