"thalience" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈθeɪlˌɪiɛns/ [UK]
Etymology: 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. Head templates: {{en-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. Wikipedia link: thalience Tags: neologism, uncountable
    Sense id: en-thalience-en-noun-LBOIm94i Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English neologisms, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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