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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meme demons: being started up by a meme doesn't necessarily mean a process is a god, it may be entirely idiosyncratic and not coordinated with anything else started up by the same meme. the more ambiguous and Rorschach-ish the meme the more likely this is
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Hmm, I’ll have to chew on this second one a bit... what is the “single compute substrate” for meme demons?
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