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What is an Actor?

There seems to be some confusion about the Actor model. In fact, I may have inadvertently contributed!

So (tongue in cheek), I wrote the following in Common sense for inconsistency robust information integration using Direct Logic(TM) and the Actor Model:

Question: Isn't procedure calling faster than message passing?
Answer: No, they are equivalent.

Question: Doesn't every Actor have a X (where X is thread, mailbox, queue, etc.)?
Answer: Is X an Actor?

Question: What is an Actor?
Answer: Anything that obeys the axioms!