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[A941]

Could it be possible that the Internet, with all his servers and personal computers in shape of desktops, netbooks, notebooks, smartphones and all the different kinds of sensors which are connected to it, has become some structure similar to a brain, where computers are neurons (partially consisting of their users)?
Could this net already have some sort of awareness or at least be a primitive (semi aware) AI, with which we could communicate?

How could we test if there is anything "out there"?
Could we "force" some sort of reaction?
Could it be possible that this AI (if it exists) has an information Treshold which, in on or another way, has to be overcome so that one may be able to reach the "awareness" of that entity?

What do you think?

 

[PWAIN]

No. There is no freedom of action. Everything done on the Internet is in response to human input. Would need random actions to make what you describe happen. Maybe someone should write a program that simulates a few neurons and links to other copies of the program connected to the internet.

[niner]

I mostly agree with PWAIN, but if you look at it from the human operator side, 7 billion humans plus one internet might be a lot more than 7 billion * 1 human. There might be a bit of a 'global brain' thing happening here, where the humans are the neurons and the net is the connection. Maybe it doesn't seem like a brain because it's presently at the level of a cockroach brain, so it produces cat videos and cheezburger memes.

[trance]

And?

[BlueCloud]

Maybe it doesn't seem like a brain because it's presently at the level of a cockroach brain, so it produces cat videos and cheezburger memes.

 

Excellent !