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
Demons inhabit gene machines and gods inhabit meme machines?
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Replying to @pelotom
nah, they both live in both and a gene is just a slow moving meme anyway
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Replying to @pelotom
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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Replying to @chaosprime @pelotom
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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Replying to @chaosprime
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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Replying to @pelotom
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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Replying to @chaosprime
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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