Sure, but these people are products of late stage enlightenment, entirely materialist, and pure reason. They seemed to have devolved into a lunatic transhumanist cult that desperately wants to become gods themselves or at least immortal. They have no connection or desire to recognize anything transcendental or something akin to divine order or the chain of being. They view people as neurons in the global consciousness, a cell inside a larger organism to which they are the brain.