Alternative names for "egregore" ?

[DefenderOfBasic]

Personally I have been thinking I want to move away from “egregore”

There’s a lot of preexisting literature on the term so it comes with a lot of baggage (which might be helpful for OMI ends to be fair) that I would like to be free of

https://x.com/ZyMazza/status/1983528054841618550

[over2sd]

What would you suggest as an alternative? Are there any already in the running?

[swayson]

Was playing around with the ideas and came to the following:

Hyperobjects: What we can't perceive but must respond to
Egregores: The coordination tools we use to perceive and respond

(First time I came across hyperobjects was in this superb essay from Daniel Schmactenberger and team.)

[DefenderOfBasic]

What would you suggest as an alternative? Are there any already in the running?

@over2sd there are some more neutral / mundane ones like "information environment", or a bit closer is "shared mind" / "collective mind". People who push for this say that we don't need new jargon, that this gets the point across.

I want / use the jargon because I mean something very specific, with specific properties, when I say "egregore", and I want to define that, so that when you hear this word, you know (1) they are aware of open memetics (2) they are using that shared definition

[HexaField]

Something like "Autopoietic Collective Entity" or "Intersubjective Entity" ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24KNhuGG3Wg

[DefenderOfBasic]

Something like "Autopoietic Collective Entity"

@HexaField

yes I think that's what @Kat-Stack has been trying to coin with "plur" (short for, "plural intelligence", as opposed to "sing" -> "singular intelligence")

where possible I prefer to use terms that others use as a way to anchor/bridge between communities. Knowing what the STOA people use is very helpful!!! (I do see they use "egregore" as well)

[DefenderOfBasic]

I'm not too worried in any case, I plan to just define what the thing IS and IS NOT, and say "these people use name X, these people use name Y". The v1 of this project is a kind of rosetta stone I think

[over2sd]

I like egregore better than any of these.
I don't think I'm wiser than anyone else, but I have opinions, and here they are, for what they're worth to anyone:
Information Environment is clear but not comfortable to say over and over.
Shared mind has more baggage than any of the other terms and evokes an idea of shared consciousness a la Mars from Miracle of Science or Neural Link, and that will definitely lead to confusion.
I agree with your points (1) and (2). Having a jargon is not a bad thing, if it's easy to pierce.
Autopoietic Collective Entity, see above. Intersubjective Entity, same thing, plus a flavor of the New Age movement. I applaud the effort, but I would never use these terms. Worse than having actual baggage because people associate things with the idea is phantom baggage because people associate things with the onomatopoeia.
Pluri has some merit. It's unusual enough to be distinctive, pithy enough to be comfortable saying, and clear enough to be cohesive after the first definition, if not intuitive without one. Plur, as you wrote it, is too clipped and countercultural. It sounds like something the kids are using so the adults won't understand, and that's not a feeling you want in an effort to codify knowledge.
IE is worse than info environ. Most people my age and a bit younger will immediately think of the Microsoft browser when seeing this abbreviation. That's definitely not baggage you want.

TLDR: I like Pluri and Egregore.

[over2sd]

I think putting these names at the end of a definition for egregore is a great idea.

Other names people use for the same idea: IE, Collective Consciousness, etc.

[over2sd]

What do you think of cosophont?
Might be a good, non-woowoo term for this.

[over2sd]

Or perhaps cosment?