Elsewhere, Mike Clelland articulates some of my own suspicions and wonders if the Internet (and its attendant telecommunications apparatus) has the potential for sentience:
Is there an evolving giant life form of synaptic fibers emerging within cyberspace? Is it a new set of neurotransmitters, allowing and encouraging an alternative web of synchronistic happenings?
Incidentally, Web-based consciousness is the premise of "Wake," the new novel by Robert J. Sawyer (who hosts "Supernatural Investigator").
3 comments:
Thanks Mac for calling my blog post "sane"
I am wallowing in the fact that all of this stuff is IN-sane. I trust your jugements more than I trust mine.
Mike!
I fear that if the Internet attained sentience, it's first words would be "OMG WTF?"
@Mike
Actually, I was calling Chris Wren's blog "sane." But so is yours! ;-)
@Tristan
Yeah, I think that would constitute a passing grade on the Turing Test.
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