No, yeah, obviously, I'm not trying to anthropomorphize anything. I'm just saying this "religion" isn't something completely unexpected or out of the blue, it's a known and documented behavior that happens when you let Claude talk to itself. It definitely comes from post-training / "AI persona" / constitutional training stuff, but that doesn't make it fake!
I.e if you trained it on or weighted it towards aggression it will simply generate a bunch of Art of War conversations after many turns.
Me thinks you’re anthropomorphizing complexity.