Professor DobbCreator / Experimenter / Narrator (Afterword)
English personeticist at Oldport, author of Non Serviam, creator of the eight-dimensional personoid universum; advocates absolute nonintervention; confesses in the Afterword his omnipotence over personoids and his refusal to reveal himself to them.
ADAN 300Personoid philosopher / primary theodicy voice
Dominant personoid thinker in the 300th generation; constructs the game-theoretic refutation of Pascal's Wager and articulates the principle that temporal ethics is wholly independent of transcendental ethics.
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ADNAPersonoid interlocutor
Poses the question about how evil done to others should be viewed in light of ADAN's argument, advancing the ethical dimension of the dialogue.
NAADPersonoid interlocutor
Questions the implications of ADAN's position on God's existence and raises the possibility that God may not desire compelled belief.
EDAN 197Historical personoid thinker
Earlier-generation personoid who independently formulated a Pascal's Wager argument within personoid history, serving as the foil for ADAN 300's refutation.
Eino KaikkiReferenced philosopher
Finnish philosopher cited for calling personetics 'the cruelest science man ever created.'
Norbert WienerReferenced progenitor
Early cyberneticist cited as half-jokingly foreseeing personetics in God and Golem.
Sir Donald AckerReferenced authority
Quoted on the MIT development where 'inputs were shorted to outputs,' marking the critical threshold in personetics.
Dr. Ian CombayColleague
Suggested privately to Dobb that he reveal his existence to the personoids; Dobb refuses.