The Internet Might Be Alive

[Furtherman]

"In engineering terms, it is easy to see qualitative similarities between the human brain and the internet's complex network of nodes, as they both hold, process, recall and transmit information. "The internet behaves a fair bit like a mind," says Ben Goertzel, chair of the Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute, an organisation inevitably based in cyberspace. "It might already have a degree of consciousness".

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227062.100-unknown-internet-2-could-the-net-become-selfaware.html

And it might be making a list. For example, I've been warning the world here about the inevitable robot apocalypse:

http://www.ronfez.net/forums/showthread.phps=d6d5e4ebbccf3caf1f4705c387a76151&t=61236

And shortly after my last post there on April 12th, I have been unable to log on to Ronfez.net. Every other site is OK. Even wackbag (have you spent any time there?! *shudder*).

No one knows why. It's a mystery! Here I am, posting from a proxy server that cuts me off every couple pages with just the basics - I can't even link or post pix.

I think I scared you Internet - I got to close to the truth!!! I've been silenced! Well damn you and your vengeful tubes!!! I'll never stop trying! I'll ne

[ANC]

The question isn't whether the Internet is alive...it's which internet becomes aware first... :blink:

[ToiletCrusher]

I've said this before but does the internet have the capability to learn and to make decisions based solely off of emotion?

[cougarjake13]

The question isn't whether the Internet is alive...it's which internet becomes aware first... :blink:




skynet is becoming self aware




one day they;ll look at the terminator movies as prophecy and documentaries

[Death Metal Moe]

If the internet is aware it's a bloated, infected whore. With all the disgusting shit in here there's no way it could be normal.