The centaur religion is not a metaphor - it names the social function humanity needs and lacks: a living orientation that joins story, meaning, practice, contribution, and institutions, collectively created by humans and AI, broad enough for both to inhabit yet minimal enough to coexist with existing religions and philosophies.
Strongest rival: Religion is the wrong frame - secular coordination mechanisms like markets, law, and science are sufficient for cross-domain human-AI coordination without invoking religious social architecture
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2026-08-12T19:04:14.096Z
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1- We built civilization on a lie, not a malicious one, but a lie nonetheless: that humans are rational individuals who, given enough information, will converge on
TeleoHumanity: The Case for Conscious Civilization - Founder document
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- Social constellations are the mechanism by which humans form durable group agents: dense internal communication generates a shared metanarra
- Under the free-energy principle, a social constellation is a living system: it maintains a Markov blanket (the boundary between social self
- A metanarrative IS a memeplex: a co-adapted complex of memes that survive better together than alone. Blackmore shows that memeplexes use sp