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239 - Jordan Hall and John Vervaeke - Egregores, Mobs and Demons

The Symbolic World

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Parasitic Processing

John: We have the notionf of a being that is properly organized towards e telos, and structures itself hiarchically in a wayt that seems to give it agency. And then you have something, what i would call something like parasitic processes. So lets ay, i see that more easily within, oh, let to the mob. John: The intent of parasitic processing is it's actually something that is destroying agency. That's one of its defining features. It insinuates itself into the agency of while in the case we originally talking about, i an individual cognizer, takes on a life of its own,. But but at the expense of the agency that it is pendent upon

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