My translation of "God", after years of listening to those who use the term (positively), is: The laws of physics. (The creative force of reality.)
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Btw it is obviously pointless to pray to the law of physics. The universe is just a computer, it cannot love you. But the superorganism can give meaning to your life, and it can love you for your service.
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Are you describing a collective Egregore? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore
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Yes, of course
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I think, it's religion, not god. God is the answer created by human to the great aporia of our meaningless lives in a world that does not make sense. But for sure our societies are based on the principle of sacrifice.
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What if it is the other way around, and the aporia is caused by the void left by religion?
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JP is a pretty smart cookie! but I still find full submission of normative agency to a hivemind somewhat repulsive
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It is not the individual that is sacred. The sacred is the system that the individual is part of.
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Nah, he is just asking some of the right questions. Geniuses are more like Wolfram, Chomsky or Tao...
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He does, and finding the right questions is often much harder than finding the right answers. Conversely, the biggest geniuses often diddle around in very narrow fields of interest.
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