A discussion of why alcoholic spirits are called spirits was actually in my most recent comptheology post, but I cut it because it was off-topic. I’d like to hammer on that theme a little more though—i.e. how in the past people were just not that individualistic, and being influenced by spirits of any kind wasn’t abnormal. I suspect it is very different to live with those inductive biases.
A discussion of why alcoholic spirits are called spirits was actually in my most recent comptheology post, but I cut it because it was off-topic. I’d like to hammer on that theme a little more though—i.e. how in the past people were just not that individualistic, and being influenced by spirits of any kind wasn’t abnormal. I suspect it is very different to live with those inductive biases.
I liked that. The historic support is good evidence for your model of people as running different copies of the same algorithms.