"Egregore (also spelled egregor; from French égrégore, from Ancient Greek ἐγρήγορος, egrēgoros 'wakeful') is an occult concept representing a non-physical entity that arises from the collective thoughts of a distinct group of people."
For example, a state or AI - something that consistsnof people, but has a distict goals of its own.
I think there may be some crossover or resonance with the ideas of:
- Carl Jung's collective unconscious and archetypes
- Arnold Toynbee and Oswald Spengler's view of civilizations as (pseudo) organisms.
Language is just another dimension of message passing between neurons. Once I realized this most religions began to make total sense to me, I had been thinking of gods etc as beings existing independent of this universe-but really the just exist on this “plain” of existence stemming from it.