Written language allowed egregores to advance in complexity by using text as long-term storage -- holy writ, contracts, regulations etc. This allows an advanced egregore a degree of independence from individual minds. But most egregores are much smaller and more primitive.
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This is why a fully owned human sounds eerily like a simple computer program when carrying out the egregore's will: the egregore is much simpler than the mind hosting it.
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As a footnote, this suggests a strategy for resisting egregore infection: When you notice everyone agreeing on some subject, train yourself to avoid that subject and reserve judgment. Kneejerk contrarianism isn't enough, not "you're wrong!" but "I dunno about that."
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To clarify: Train yourself to avoid _discussing_ that subject, or repeating what you hear. If you choose to _investigate_ the subject, that's great, but it isn't always practical. Remaining ignorant of the media explosion du jour is always a wise choice.
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Would group ceremony/ritual, sex magick, designated places of worship, and other means of tying more senses and emotional communication into a belief have the effect of increasing the egregore's complexity beyond language alone? Or does that give mass-intuition too much credit
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This is all using 'egregore' in my idiosyncratic postrat sense. Classical egregores are a lot more ritual-based but that kind overlaps more with the Holy Guardian Angel, and with what the kids these days call tulpas.
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I've contacted my Holy Guardian Angel but it was kind of accidental and I couldn't teach anyone else to do it.
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Fascinating. What were the circumstances, if you don't mind my asking?
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don't quite agree; all that complexity inside individual humans was also seeded by "low bandwidth" language/sense/sensemaking. egregores can similarly have emergent complexity from composition over time across many differentiated parts.…
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An egregore can make use of complex machinery in its host, like a virus uses cellular machinery. But if it draws on that capacity too deeply -- if it uses it in unpredictable ways -- it loses coherence as an entity. IOW, too much thinking makes heretics.
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hmm, I think an egregore can be heretical, too, so will have to ponder. (tangentially related: I highly recommend
@gregeganSF's short story 'Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies')
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