This has long been my suspicion. Combine meme theory with a multi-agent model of mind and it starts to look like the occult concept of “egregores” is right after all—distributed agents composed of many separate programs running on many separate human minds, coordinating via communication and ritualistic behaviors, control most of the world. Corporations and gods are two obvious examples.
This has long been my suspicion. Combine meme theory with a multi-agent model of mind and it starts to look like the occult concept of “egregores” is right after all—distributed agents composed of many separate programs running on many separate human minds, coordinating via communication and ritualistic behaviors, control most of the world. Corporations and gods are two obvious examples.