Okay so parogenesis is this form of scientific mysticism where you invest mental energy and time into the thought of an external being living in your head, and then your brain adapts and starts running a second consiousness to embody this created thought-being, which we call a parogen (or tulpa).
I’ve seen parogeneticists (or tulpamancers) theorise that the reason so many Christians hear the Lord answering them when they pray, is because they accidentally made a Yahweh parogen. And now this AI bro has come one step closer to reinventing AI religion, by accidentally making a ChatGPT parogen!
Bronze Age bicameral mind is this theory that bronze age people experienced their thoughts as coming from an external source, and attributed it to the gods. At least, according to My ten second search. Which is kind of similar, although I feel it asserts unnecessary difference between modern and ancient humans, when we can see clearly here that it’s been happening forever. I think parogenesis as an enduring practice throughout the millenia is a better model. Especially since we can perform scientific experiments on the process of parogenesis to learn more.