In chaos magick, which is where I learned the term from, egregores are just agentic memeplexes in general, iirc. That’s how I’ve always used the term. Another perhaps better way of defining it would be distributed collective subagents.
I’m pretty sure “social constructs” in postmodernist philosophy are the same thing, but that stuff’s too dense for me to bother reading. Another good term might be “hive minds”, but that has unfortunate Borg connotations for most people and is an overloaded term in general.
Yeah, I don’t see much reason to disagree with that use of “egregore”.
I’m noticing I’ve updated away from using references to any particular layer until I have more understanding of the causal patterning. Life, up to the planetary and down to the molecular, seems to be a messy, recursive nesting of learning networks with feedbacks and feedforwards all over the place. Too much separation/focus on any given layer seems like a good way to miss the big picture.
In chaos magick, which is where I learned the term from, egregores are just agentic memeplexes in general, iirc. That’s how I’ve always used the term. Another perhaps better way of defining it would be distributed collective subagents.
I’m pretty sure “social constructs” in postmodernist philosophy are the same thing, but that stuff’s too dense for me to bother reading. Another good term might be “hive minds”, but that has unfortunate Borg connotations for most people and is an overloaded term in general.
Yeah, I don’t see much reason to disagree with that use of “egregore”.
I’m noticing I’ve updated away from using references to any particular layer until I have more understanding of the causal patterning. Life, up to the planetary and down to the molecular, seems to be a messy, recursive nesting of learning networks with feedbacks and feedforwards all over the place. Too much separation/focus on any given layer seems like a good way to miss the big picture.