a demon (or tulpa) is a semi-autonomous cognitive process running on one compute substrate and a god (or egregore) is a semi-autonomous cognitive process distributed across multiple compute substrates
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Wow that narrows it down a bit. I like it. This sort of definition of "cognitive process" implies very interesting definitions/meanings for other mental-process terms which I'd love to hear about.
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i feel like i can't possibly do well at this quiz but i guess that's no excuse not to try
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