Ie, ontologically, are "community", "public", "commonwealth" etc. more like "god" that are entirely functions of belief in them (speaking as an atheist) or more like "ecosystem" that exist in a PKD sense independent of belief in them.
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"Market" is another one. You could think of all these as pure egregores, existing only as long as belief in them persists.
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Another way to ask the PKD-reality question is: what remains if all the *people* go away. Before computers, you'd only have material realities, but now with AIs you have the possibility of interesting perpetuation of robotic behaviors that might constitute egregores.
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Deleuze Guattari and Landa talk about assemblages. An assemblage emerges when a function emerges; ideally it is innovative and productive. The result of a productive assemblage is a new means of expression, a new territorial/spatial organisation, a new institution etc
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The assemblage is supposed to produce a new reality, by making unexpected, connections or realizations
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If I, individually, stop believing in the notion of "community", communities will continue to exist. If we collectively stop believing in communities, then they will stop existing, at least in their current form.
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This is what I think the difference between delusion, social reality, and physical reality is: how the effect it has scales with the number of people believing in it (linear, nonlinear, constant, respectively)
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Reality is what doesn't go away when _you_ stop believing in it. No codicil for whether others stop. This is extra true when there's no strong dominant culture to enforce subcultural conformance. God might not exist, but the godly and their obeisance to His rules certainly do.
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"Public" is interinstitutionality plus a dominant culture regulating the exchange.
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