Electronic/World Wide Web>Blog: Kelly, Kevin , Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism, The Technium Blog, Retrieved on 2013-11-15Source Material [kk.org]
Folksonomies: emergence consciousness Memes
15 NOV 2013
How Do You Find Emergent Intelligence on the Internet?
How would we know if there was an autonomous conscious superorganism? We would need a Turing Test for a global AI. But the Turing Test is flawed for this search because it is meant to detect human-like intelligence, and if a consciousness emerged at the scale of a global megacomputer, its intelligence would unlikely to be anything human-like. We might need to turn to SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), for guidance. By definition, it is a test for non-human intelligence...How would you communicate with it? How would it reveal itself?
15 NOV 2013
The Internet as a Superorganism
If the cloud is a vast array of personal computer processors, then why not add your own laptop or desktop computer to it? It in a certain way it already is. Whenever you are online, whenever you click on a link, or create a link, your processor is participating in the yet larger cloud, the cloud of all computer chips online. I call this cloud the One Machine because in many ways it acts as one supermegacomputer. The majority of the content of the web is created within this one virtual compu...Folksonomies: intelligence emergence
Folksonomies: intelligence emergence
Built from a gazillion chips coordinating to distribute content, memes, calculations.