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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What are examples of gene gods and meme demons?
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gene gods: basically all the "presets" of human social cognition, all the ways we tend to behave in groups without dependence on enculturation, are either a gene god or a pantheon of gene gods
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