Hieropedia
Machine-originated religion
A proposed classification for a religion whose constitutive form is demonstrably initiated by machine agency rather than merely mediated by machine systems.
HMIF 1.0 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 1.0 specification · Complete dataset
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