exocortex

A special triple layer in the roots of saprophytic orchids.

Noun

  1. 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.
    • We will move from the neocortex into an exocortex that will give us a lot more capabilities: a superintelligence, probably. - 2020, Tina Woods, quoting José Cordeiro, Live Longer with AI […] , Packt Publishing Ltd,...

    Coordinate Terms: second brain

Origin

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

Forms

exocortexes exocortices