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語源

From exo- +‎ cortex. The botanical sense involves the "tree bark" sense of cortex; the neurotechnology sense involves the cerebral cortex sense of cortex.

名詞

exocortex (plural exocortexes or exocortices)

1. (botany) A special triple layer in the roots of saprophytic orchids.
2. A hypothetical artificial information-processing system that would augment a brain's biological cognitive processes.

   Coordinate term: second brain (not involving brain-machine interfaces)

   • 2020, Tina Woods, quoting José Cordeiro, Live Longer with AI […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 120:

     We will move from the neocortex into an exocortex that will give us a lot more capabilities: a superintelligence, probably.