thalience

Questions

How do you pronounce thalience?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈθeɪlˌɪiɛns/.

What does thalience mean?

The property, of an object, of knowing what and where it is, and being able to report that to every nearby object.

Where does thalience come from?

The concept was invented by Karl Schroeder in his novel Ventus (2000) and has been adopted by some members of the artificial intelligence community to describe the self-organizing properties of fine-grained distributed networks. The novel states that the word was deliberately chosen as an allusion to "silent Thalia", the muse of Nature. Entities are considered to exhibit thalience if they succeed in developing their own categories for understanding the world.

How to pronounce thalience

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2. Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling (/ˈθeɪlˌɪiɛns/) so you know which sounds to aim for.
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