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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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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one person (unless we want to be possibly a little too twee and consider, for example, Unix system daemons to be a meaningful cognate to the pattern, in which case they're meme demons if they don't implement a protocol talking to each other)
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