What is "simulant"

Usage examples of "simulant".

In order to preserve the fiction that Inferno was a simulation, and Governor Kresh merely a simulant, he could not have any direct communication with any of the Terraforming Center staff whenever it was possible that Dee could overhear.

And, I might add, she does have a tendency to believe in her simulants, to care about them.

When she talks to me, a real human being, she cuts all links to any simulants, so as not to complicate the experiment by letting the simulants hear things they shouldn’t.

I can try as hard as you like, but it is mathematically and physically impossible for me to equate the simulants with real people.

Edenists would use bitek systems, either simulants or affinity-bonded animals.