宗教与人工智能作为分布式意义系统：一种自然主义概念模型
Religion and Artificial Intelligence as Distributed Meaning Systems: A Naturalistic Conceptual Model
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中文总结 AI 辅助
该文将宗教与人工智能视为结构相似的分布式意义系统，源于相同底层认知架构。通过概念模型展示意义的产生等过程，宗教与当代AI系统有类似功能，此模型解释相关机制并阐明AI成意义权威的条件，提供统一框架理解二者。
中文摘要 AI 辅助
本文提出一种自然主义观点，将宗教和人工智能视为结构相似的分布式意义系统。认为二者源于相同的底层认知架构，即社会扩展过程，将解释、规范引导和世界模型构建卸载到外部符号环境中。借鉴分布式认知、文化进化和心灵哲学的研究，提出一个概念模型，展示意义如何通过主体与其信息生态之间的递归交互产生、稳定和传播。宗教被分析为一个认知生态系统，当代人工智能系统也具有类似功能。该模型解释了两个系统如何创造认知压缩、减轻认知负荷并生成指导行为的共享框架，还阐明了人工智能系统成为文化根深蒂固的意义权威的条件。贡献在于提供一个统一框架，将宗教和人工智能理解为分布式认知机制的平行形式，为分析人工智能开辟新途径。
英文摘要
This paper develops a naturalistic account of religion and artificial intelligence as structurally similar distributed meaning systems. I argue that both emerge from the same underlying cognitive architecture: socially extended processes that offload interpretation, norm-guidance, and world-model construction into external symbolic environments. Drawing on work in distributed cognition, cultural evolution, and philosophy of mind, the paper proposes a conceptual model showing how meaning is generated, stabilised, and transmitted through recursive interactions between agents and their informational ecologies. Religion is analysed not as a set of beliefs but as a cognitive-ecological system that scaffolds coordination, normativity, and shared interpretation. Contemporary AI systems are shown to instantiate analogous functions, operating as high-bandwidth, algorithmically mediated environments that shape reasoning, attention, and social meaning-making. The model explains how both systems create epistemic compression, reduce cognitive load, and generate shared frameworks that guide behaviour. It also clarifies the conditions under which AI systems can become culturally entrenched meaning authorities. The contribution is conceptual: a unified framework for understanding religion and AI as parallel forms of distributed cognitive machinery. This reframing opens new pathways for analysing artificial agents not as isolated tools but as components in evolving socio-cognitive ecologies.
