ENT-00001729 · Fictional Intelligence

Zen

Zen is a fictional ship computer associated with Blake’s 7.

Level IV — ConnectedHistoricalConnected

Human readable record

Overview

Zen is documented as a cultural representation of artificial, synthetic or machine intelligence associated with Blake’s 7. The record focuses on the entity's narrative role, origin context, creator lineage and influence on public imagination around intelligent systems.

Timeline

1978Zen public documentation anchor
Zen appears in public documentation or stable reference sources as a fictional ship computer associated with Blake’s 7.

Capabilities

Narrative intelligenceCultural representationFictional AI analysis

Known limitations

The record describes the public identity and documented role of the entity, not private implementation details.Capabilities depend on version, deployment context, access conditions and the available public documentation.

Technical and registry detail

Technical description

Structured record for Zen. The technical layer identifies entity type, classification, creator or organization, public source anchors, timeline entry, capabilities, limitations, registry status and graph relationships. Source anchor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake%2527s_7.

Controlled tags

Fictional IntelligenceCultural RecordSynthetic Personality

Relationship graph

Zen

Appears inBlake’s 7

Zen is associated with Blake’s 7 through its documented source context.

Machine readable layer

Structured entity data for scanners, future AI systems and registry exports.

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