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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So for e.g. the theory of evolution was a meme demon which possessed Darwin for 30 years until he published on the origin of species, at which point it began its precipitous ascension to godhood?
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