I may be wrong on this, but I feel like they're different things - a daimon/daemon is simply a spirit, feeling, something that does something. AI is a good example. It's there. It's influential like the wind, but it's also not a proper intact form.
A CS nerd analogy here might be functional vs object - one transforms, the other holds more of a form.
The Christian demon seems a cultural appropriation of it, especially during that era where they were taking a lot of classical philosophical Greek terms and just Christianizing them.
And superstition is a good example of our brains trying to overcome its limits by just gambling on the outcome / being probabilistic. Maybe guessing is the right call in absense of other options. If part of a species guesses correctly, it can continue and reproduce. But if it insists on being 100% sure it would be wiped out quickly.
I may be wrong on this, but I feel like they're different things - a daimon/daemon is simply a spirit, feeling, something that does something. AI is a good example. It's there. It's influential like the wind, but it's also not a proper intact form.
A CS nerd analogy here might be functional vs object - one transforms, the other holds more of a form.
The Christian demon seems a cultural appropriation of it, especially during that era where they were taking a lot of classical philosophical Greek terms and just Christianizing them.
Yes, I think so too. Christian demons weren't that much different, just described in a more sinister way with some added metal lore.
superstition was humanity’s first science, and is the science by which we’ve acquired all the others
And superstition is a good example of our brains trying to overcome its limits by just gambling on the outcome / being probabilistic. Maybe guessing is the right call in absense of other options. If part of a species guesses correctly, it can continue and reproduce. But if it insists on being 100% sure it would be wiped out quickly.