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sophont[From Poul Anderson's `Polesotechnic League' stories, going back at least to 1963] An evolved biological intelligence. Implies human-level cognitive and linguistic ability but not necessaril [..]
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sophont
(chiefly,science fiction) An intelligent being; a being with a base reasoning capacity roughly equivalent to or greater than that of a human being. The word does not apply to machines unless they ha [..]
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