I'm into reading analytical psychology and alchemy right now and I keep bumping into people talking about entities as, like, manifestations of consciousness on different relational "layers" (entities are like amorphous willpowers that use very alien pathways of reasoning to create things or solve problems) from the average human. Mimosa plants present aspects of consciousness like long-term memory, for instance, using plant cell networks and not neurons. There's a billion different ghosts and gods people have told stories about over the ages.
Alchemy is in part about how to come up with novel ways of reasoning that really work using every medium from your own emotions to entire worlds (almost like science), so like a magician someone can fool you and you may never know how or never even know you were fooled. These spooky pathways of reasoning become an aspect of one's unconscious in that sense according to people like Jung, who identifies archetypes and a lot of other manifest things in the unconscious. A lot of it's used for pseudoscience and cult-building but there's also a lot of genuine information to be learned from ancient and modern alchemy that would benefit everybody.
So I was thinking, wouldn't an AI be a true entity in the classic sense of the word? Hell look at how algorithms are already affecting human behavior in the way content is delivered on places like Facebook or Youtube. Several data companies used massive warehouses of processing power to help elect Trump by knowing when and where to insert what information (true or false), no bullshit. There are many places in this country where media is completely owned by one ideological group or another and it reflects in the average psyche of the people living there.
And if these other more religious sorts of entities were real wouldn't a very powerful AI be able to detect them? I'm not a believer but it'd be a fun experiment for sure.
I just love this stuff, so fun to think about.
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