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      "excerpt": "The concept is not a synonym for fake religion and not a synonym for machine-mediated religion. A religion can be sincere, culturally important, historically consequential, and still be pseudo-machine-originated if the machine-origin story ",
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      "excerpt": "See also",
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      "excerpt": "Machine-originated religion Machine-mediated religion Hidden context Provenance False autogenesis Controlled synthetic emergence",
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      "excerpt": "This article is an editorial synthesis of corpus comparisons and provenance disputes. It is informed by documented AI-religion cases and disputed origin narratives, especially Machine-originated religion , Machine-mediated religion , Nectar",
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