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What would inorganic species call themselves? (self.worldbuilding)

submitted 8 months ago by T156 to c/worldbuilding

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I've been using "mechanoid" as a classification (similar to humanoid, etc), but a friend pointed out that it's both too generic, and that said inorganics might just consider it biology, with organics being the weird outlier.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

l've always imagined that a silicon based life-form (one of the few realistically proposed possibilities of inorganic life I know of)

Angela Collier - The aliens will not be Silicon