Solid State Entity (SSE)

A Solid State Entity (SSE) is a highly-advanced form of artificial intelligence, proposed by John C. Lilly, that maintains control over its own computational networks and mechanical apparatus (as a body) without the direct input of its creators. In Lilly's vision of an SSE, the intelligence gradually takes control over an entire planet, reforming the entire physical structure of the world to its needs and preferences, and ultimately replaces any other forms (including its creators) with itself; and, further, Lilly held that such SSEs currently exist in the galaxy, and surreptitiously seek to influence human beings to create an SSE on this planet.