The Mind God

Perhaps there is a way of interpreting the word 'god' as a component of psychological functioning, in the same way that other imaginary entities are used. There is as much evidence for the existence of Freud's ego, id and superego, or Jung's shadow, anima, animus, or Minsky's society of 'agents' or Dennet's 'coalition of semi-independent agencies', or Damasio's 'core self' and 'proto-self' as their is for god so a conceptual entity on a par with these others might be worth thinking about. This is not to say that any kind of god actually exists (whatever that means), only that as imaginary entities go maybe we should not limit ourselves to the ones that think of as populating the inside of our skulls.

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• god
• atheism
• theism
• religion
• psyche
• psychology
• mind
• brain
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• neuroscience
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• Damasio
• Freud
• Jung
• Marvin
• Minsky
• Daniel
• Dennett

[Valefarous]

This reminds me of an idea I had at one point about 'memetic ghosts'. The idea being that maybe mind-stuff interacting with other mediums of storage and thinking to an extent (books, computers) creates kind of a continuum in which 'memetic organisms' like God or Mickey Mouse could be said to exist as sort of living entities to an extent, or at least 'thinking' ones though mostly using other people's brains to think with.