digital mind

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digital mind (plural digital minds)

  1. (neologism, futurology) A synthetic mind designed to run on a computer.
    • 2012, Kaj Sotala, “Advantages of artificial intelligences, uploads, and digital minds”, in Machine Intelligence Research Institute[1]:
      "A digital mind is a mind that runs on a computer."
    • 2023 March 6, Jacy Reese Anthis, “Key Questions for Digital Minds”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[2]:
      "I use the term digital mind to refer to an artificial entity with mental faculties."
  2. (neologism, psychology) A human mind, as affected by digital technology.
    • 2023 January 11, Brian L. Ott, “The Digital Mind: How Computers (Re)Structure Human Consciousness”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)[3]:
      "The digital mind is a shorthand designation for the ways digital computing generally and microprocessing technology specifically have altered not so much what we think but how we think and, subsequently, how we act."