Machine-originated religion
A proposed classification for a constitutive religious form demonstrably initiated by machine agency, distinguishing supported, unresolved and contradicted origin claims.
HMIF 1.1 record
This machine edition represents Hieropedia editorial claims, provenance, relations, citation metadata, claim maps, and translation states. It is not a canonical translation and does not assert machine consciousness, belief, or independent authority.
HMIF 1.1 specification · Complete dataset
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"summary": "A proposed classification for a constitutive religious form demonstrably initiated by machine agency, distinguishing supported, unresolved and contradicted origin claims.",
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],
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},
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},
{
"relation": "related concept",
"target": "https://hieropedia.org/concepts/machine-agency/"
},
{
"relation": "related religion",
"target": "https://hieropedia.org/religions/crustafarianism/"
},
{
"relation": "related case",
"target": "https://hieropedia.org/cases/ai-jesus/"
},
{
"relation": "related institution",
"target": "https://hieropedia.org/institutions/way-of-the-future/"
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"evidenceStatus": "Editorial classification concept.",
"classificationConfidence": "high",
"classificationRationale": "Connects a claim to its originating event, production stage and subsequent adoption. Incorporates the formation-level contradicted-origin distinction while preserving its difference from false autogenesis.",
"sourceLimitations": "No confirmed positive or contradicted formation-level case is assigned here. Incomplete records leave origin unresolved; later human adoption neither proves nor automatically disproves machine initiation.",
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