"Cylon is a fictional artificially-intelligent 'collective' of robotic beings. Because of a special set of programs Zoe Graystone wrote, creating a digital image of her very existence, the Cylon's as individuals achieve 'cognizance' \u2013 i.e. are able to ask who and what they are \u2013 why they exist, and based on that programming, they start out life each believing in a god \u2013 the same God Zoe worshiped."@en .