Okay so parogenesis is this form of scientific mysticism where you invest mental energy and time into the thought of an external being living in your head, and then your brain adapts and starts running a second consiousness to embody this created thought-being, which we call a parogen (or tulpa).

I've seen parogeneticists (or tulpamancers) theorise that the reason so many Christians hear the Lord answering them when they pray, is because they accidentally made a Yahweh parogen. And now this AI bro has come one step closer to reinventing AI religion, by accidentally making a ChatGPT parogen!

Bronze Age bicameral mind is this theory that bronze age people experienced their thoughts as coming from an external source, and attributed it to the gods. At least, according to My ten second search. Which is kind of similar, although I feel it asserts unnecessary difference between modern and ancient humans, when we can see clearly here that it's been happening forever. I think parogenesis as an enduring practice throughout the millenia is a better model. Especially since we can perform scientific experiments on the process of parogenesis to learn more.

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[–] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Local Lemmy user discovers satire.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    People have made deities from less....

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    I can almost read this. Maybe you can save it as a lower quality jpeg a couple more times?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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    wow I'm reading the original bicameral mind book by Julian Jaynes right now and it's freaking me out to see a meme about it. The while theory kind of freaks me out, to hear that folks maybe can prove it gives me the willies

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 weeks ago*

    Cool, maybe you can check My interpretation. Did I get it right? Are My gut instincts valid?

    And uh, yeah, parogenesis is pretty reproducible. You can do it yourself with a few weeks of meditation. Although you shouldn't do that just to find out, for ethical reasons. Making up a new person in your head is a big decision. You're going to be responsible for them, for their entire life. They might not turn out the way you expect, just like any person being created.

    But you can go online and talk to plural systems, including systems of endogenic origin which may contain parogens, and it's all very logical and reproducible. I hesitate to use the term "scientific", but that's just because psychologists haven't really touched the field yet. I'm hoping to change that in time. Although...

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