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thalience

UK/ˈθeɪlˌɪiɛns/

thalience noun: the property, of an object, of knowing what and where it is, and being able to report that to every nearby object.

Noun

thalience (uncountable)

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

thalience meaning in Bengali

thalience in Bengali

একটি বস্তুর গুণ

Origin of thalience

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.

Questions about thalience

What does thalience mean?
Thalience means the property, of an object, of knowing what and where it is, and being able to report that to every nearby object.
What is thalience in Bengali?
Thalience in Bengali is একটি বস্তুর গুণ. See Thalience meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is thalience?
Thalience is a noun.
How do you pronounce thalience?
Thalience is pronounced /ˈθeɪlˌɪiɛns/ (UK).

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