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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Replying to @ChaoticianDrac @chaosprime
[...] along the lines of global definition vessels for speaking about common patterns throughout cosmic space. As such I'm curious what other words you might use which normally apply to the brain but which can be applied to many phenomina about the world.
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dunno off the top of my head but i'm sure you're right that there are some. i was specifically trying to not be a big anthropocentric racist about it
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