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Chi for Robots?

Started by Ghost Whistler, August 31, 2010, 10:55:13 AM

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Ghost Whistler

What's a good word for the robot equivalent of Chi? What should such a force be called.
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It translates loosely to "the cyber-force" though robots prefer not to talk about it.
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Chi Squared

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Added: Apologies for the multilingual pun, but a Mandarin-Greek-Statistics pun was irresistable. Besides, Chi (Greek) is X, the unknown, the X-treme, the X-factor. It is perfect.
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I like Clash's idea.

I might go with Chi, no matter robots aren't people, they are a part of the world. Like sites have chi too. In the mystic sense, not the physical (Breath) sense.
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Quote from: BedrockBrendan;402240I think electric chi has a nice ring to it.

Sounds like a dance from the 60s... ;)
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