Personoid is the concept coined by Stanisław Lem, a Polish science-fiction writer, in Non Serviam, from his book A Perfect Vacuum (1971).
His personoids are an abstraction of functions of human mind and they live in computers; they do not need any human-like physical body.
In cognitive and software modeling, personoid is a research approach to the development of intelligent autonomous agents.
In frame of the IPK (Information, Preferences, Knowledge) architecture, it is a framework of abstract intelligent agent with a cognitive and structural intelligence.
From the philosophical and systemics perspectives, personoid societies can also be seen as the carriers of a culture.