Mmmm... the personification of God to me is a simple side-effect of human arrogance during the dunning-kruger phase of our collective intelligence. I like to think that "God created me" is more an assignment of the idea of a hypothetical "source" of existence to a symbol "God".
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Replying to @nhnt11
Yes, I thought so too, but now the idea of unifying creator and intentional-structure-I-am-serving appears to be an entirely deliberate plant with a clear functional purpose.
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Replying to @Plinz
What's that purpose do you think? If you asked me, I'd probably say it's a virus-like replication strategy, for survival and dominance.
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Replying to @nhnt11
The synchronization of normative behavior via the implantation of religious cult software is the primary way in which our present civilization was built. It is really hard to say where we would be without it.
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Replying to @Plinz
Here, the "religious cult software" applies a common set of attractors to all infected individuals, hence achieving a consistent direction of evolution over time, no? Seems meta to me, and the religions that have actually emerged are the emergent "successful" implementations.
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Replying to @nhnt11
The most successful religions have evolved their own intelligent design. They are aware of their own nature, the space in which they operate, they have carefully tested infection and debugging protocols, and they have designed strategies to run circles around the competition.
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Replying to @Plinz
How can one define and demonstrate the self-awareness of a religion?
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I would be skeptical that a majority of the individuals of a religion are truly aware of its emergent behavior and its demonstration of possession of some kind of memory. And if the individuals do not demonstrate this awareness, can the collective?
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Replying to @nhnt11
No, the lay people within a religion are usually not supposed to understand how their religion works. There is often even a taboo against looking too closely at other religions. The lower ranks are mostly expected to run a model that is considered to be best for their role.
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Replying to @Plinz
exactly why I thought a religion can't be self-aware, because I was modeling self-awareness as something that needs to be part of the base virus, but indeed it does not.
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The cost of achieving full individual self awareness may be very high (what do you do with people that are difficult to wake up? and is it not useful if the lower ranks are eager to reap the rewards of the afterlife?). Personally, I'd prefer to be part of a lucid civilization.
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Replying to @Plinz
Indeed, the self-awareness software demands a more sophisticated (than average) target architecture to run on. Some need to expand their instruction set before they can run the program. I've learned this the hard way while "mentoring" other humans.
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Can apes be lucid? Also, is it possible that there is a shred of truth around which ships of detritus are built? To avoid punching down, it could be said that this possibility could point to the utility of even a shred of something real.
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