Daemon
[related: Socrates] [disambiguation: mailer_daemon (composer and cyberpoet)]
Term both synonymous with demon in the ancient and/or biblical sense[1] and used for background computer programs designed to deal with mundane and constant requests. Because daemons run without user control, they have been referred to by various technologists as the computational subconscious.[2] In the 1990's, the term mailer_daemon was used by programmers as the "sender" for failed or bounced electronic mail messages with no discernable errors or flaws - a sort of digital demon, if you will. The term daemon was originally coined by Socrates[3] in reference to a "voice in his head" that commanded all of his actions,[4] a phenomenon later attributed by Freud to schizoaffective disorder.
- ↑ Ex. Pazuzu, the Legemeton.
- ↑ As relating to the [[anima}Jungian]] "collective unconscious".
- ↑ Prior to being convicted of corrupting the "minds of the youth" and sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock.
- ↑ 4According to cognitive scientist Julian Jaynes, Socrates was perhaps the first human to experience uni-camerial consciousness - his "daemon" being simple vocalized sentience.