Wonderfully summarised and collected as usual. Now I want to see a description of your various names using these categories above, heheh.
The only thing I could think to add, after much pondering, was family relation names. In particular the traditional japanese name sequence of "Tarou - Jirou - Kazuo" meaning first, second, and third son sprang to mind, but also names like Uncle for a male ward of a group of younger individuals or Mother for the creator of a race.
Also perhaps serial numbers? An AI character may only go by a simple sequence of characters for the purpose of identification, assigned at creation. Although of course this is the basis for all names there's an important distinction if all individuals look alike or the name is equally non-symbolic to all of them.
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Now I want to see a description of your various names using these categories above, heheh.
The only thing I could think to add, after much pondering, was family relation names. In particular the traditional japanese name sequence of "Tarou - Jirou - Kazuo" meaning first, second, and third son sprang to mind, but also names like Uncle for a male ward of a group of younger individuals or Mother for the creator of a race.
Also perhaps serial numbers? An AI character may only go by a simple sequence of characters for the purpose of identification, assigned at creation. Although of course this is the basis for all names there's an important distinction if all individuals look alike or the name is equally non-symbolic to all of them.
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