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suricrasia@lethargic.talkative.fish ("blackle mori") wrote:
a "geist" refers to a cognitive bias where person-like mental states are attributed to non-person entities. for example, asking whether a nation "wants" something is turning the nation into a geist. wondering if a chatroom has an "opinion" or a "belief" is another example. usually these questions can be reworded to be more concrete: "does the median person in this nation want X?" or "do the people in the chatroom have a consensus on Y?" but sometimes, once you reword your geisty thoughts into non-geisty terms, you'll realize it's not quite what you'd meant originally. and that's because you were thinking about the geist. and the geist is not real.