{"id":1191,"date":"2008-12-15T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2008-12-15T01:00:49","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T05:00:49","slug":"considering-demons-intelligence-and-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1191","title":{"rendered":"Considering Demons, Intelligence, and Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been recently pondering whether older notions of demons and modern notions of ideology, meme, and the like are not unrelated. Along those lines, this brings in questions regarding the detecting of intelligence. How can we locate and find (non-human) intelligence among us? Assume for a moment that intelligence other than us is at work in our local sphere, i.e., the earth, how might we locate it? How might we detect it?<\/p>\n<p>Another analogy might be to consider these intelligences (or <em>our intelligence<\/em>) might be actually something akin to second order forces, like the relationship between the internal electrical forces holding atoms together and Van der Waals forces <em>between<\/em> atoms. This could go in either of two ways. That is inspiration, flashes of genius, might be really &#8220;from outside of us&#8221; &#8230; or the other way, that humans collectively form social networks which themselves might exhibit intelligence independent of individuals. Consider an ant colony. Imagine an ant colony that collectively as a colony exhibits intelligence. Now consider that those ant&#8217;s are us &#8230; <em>individually<\/em> intelligent <em>and<\/em> having exhibiting some number of colonial intelligences at a macro level. Why not?<\/p>\n<p>On that note &#8230; does any reader have any suggestions further reading on either identifying intelligence or a modern theology of demons?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been recently pondering whether older notions of demons and modern notions of ideology, meme, and the like are not unrelated. Along those lines, this brings in questions regarding the detecting of intelligence. How can we locate and find (non-human) intelligence among us? 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