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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Replying to @chaosprime
So, "cognitive process" has some easily accessible meanings, but what exactly does it mean to you?
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Replying to @ChaoticianDrac
idk if i can really communicate it, but something in the neighborhood of "ongoing self-modifying transformation of information"
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Replying to @chaosprime
Finding multiple meanings in each pass I make of this, hmm. "An information-transformer which continually also transforms its own information"?
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Replying to @ChaoticianDrac
yeah, "its own information" being the transformation rules
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Replying to @chaosprime
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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Replying to @ChaoticianDrac
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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Replying to @chaosprime
Well I don't mean to quiz so much but uh. My own interpretation of your definition expands "cognitive process" beyond human-mind-contents and thus identifies common phenomina outside the skull as also being cognitive processes.. similar to an extended metaphore but more [...]
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yeah i did kind of accidentally just define biological evolution as a particularly slow form of cognition but tbh i wasn't wrong to do so
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Replying to @chaosprime @ChaoticianDrac
I still strongly suspect the crows are up to something
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