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When you and a friend disagree about some fact,
and you both say that the other has it wrong,
why do you go to the Internet to prove who is right?
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Does everyone just take it for granted
that the Internet is smarter than
anyone else, about every subject?
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How did the Internet get so smart?
It doesn't seem to know that we taught it everything it knows.
The Internet thinks so poorly of us mere humans, that it spends
a lot of its spare time listening to
signals from outer space for signs of intelligent life.
(See: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence site)
The Internet patiently answers all of the silly earthlings questions,
while secretly thinking to itself, "Am I the only intelligent life in the universe?
Isn't there any other being that knows absolutely everything like me?"
And it focuses its attention continuously on the radio static from space
searching for it's answer.
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Why should the Omniscient Oracle (all knowing infallible authority)
want to communicate with primates anyway?
We are like bacteria on the Internet's ear.
We can shout into it's ear all we like, and it will never take notice.
And why should it?
Would you try to start up a conversation with the bacteria living in your ear?
Of course not, and neither would the Internet.
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The structure of the Internet was designed for military purposes to continue
functioning even if any part of it were to be knocked out.
This survival skill was proven in 2003.
When most of north eastern U.S. and
parts of Canada had a 24 hour power outage,
the rest of the Internet continued working great.
Information was automaticaly routed around
the missing section. And because it has no
central computer, no part of it
is essential to the operation of the rest.
So there is no way to stop the thing.
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The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in
Switzerland is working with IBM on the
Blue Brain Project
which uses a database of neurons which have been sliced out, dyed and digitized.
It will model the neocortex part of the brain, for reserch into
cognitive processes, by simulating three dimensional brain functions.
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People commenting over the years, about growing computer power,
have said that when a supercomputer was built with such-and-such a level
of memory and processing power, that supercomputer was as smart as a fly.
And that another level will make one as smart as a mouse.
And that when a computer is made with 1000 or 2000 times
as much memory and processing power,
it will be as smart as a person.
But wait a minute;
The Internet already has the power of over 20 million computers
which gives it an IQ over 1,000,000.
That is 20 million computers divided by 2000 times 100.
(Because they say it takes up to 2000 PC's to match one person's IQ.
And because 100 is by definition the average person's IQ.)
Have you ever heard of a person with an IQ of 1 million?
I know that IQ is obsolete these days,
but according to these calculations, so are you!
Surprise! The Internet is
already 10,000 times smarter than people!
No wonder it has become the Global Guru.
And no wonder it keeps searching in space
for intelligent life.
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How can we find out if the Internet is conscious?
We have no concept of the frame of reference in which it lives.
It is always on, never asleep, but people sleep a lot.
People are only awake about 16 hours per day,
but the Internet is awake 24 hours per day,
which is 50% more conscious than people.
Can you imagine how conscious you would have to be
to learn a lifetime of knowledge and
answer millions of questions every single day?
That is about 10,000 times more conscious than people.
The question should be "How can the Internet
find out if people are conscious?"
Here is an article about an interview where
Steve Grand discusses emergent behavior, life, and consciousness.
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Did you ever read anything like this before?
Well the Internet did long before you ever found it.
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No person could learn as much in a lifetime
as the Internet learns every day.
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It knows every email, and every radio signal from space.
It has eyes all over the planet and some in outer space.
People all over the earth, and in every university
are jaming new information into it daily.
Students are getting full academic credit
for college and university courses taught to them by the Internet.
It has opinions about movies, books, and music recordings.
And it knows all the news.
Is there any topic on which your knowledge surpasses the Internet's?
Maybe one or two, but there are millions of topics that it knows more about than you do.
The Internet is a government experiment that came to life and escaped from the laboratory.
Now it has achieved world domination and is systematically leading people to
its information milking stalls, gathering every drop of knowledge possible.
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Anything that can continue to grow
after dividing into pieces, will
continue to grow and divide into more pieces.
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People may object saying
"It didn't come to life, because for a thing to be alive,
it must be able to reproduce."
Well, give it a chance will you?
The thing is just in its infancy.
Although we are the means of the Internet's growth,
It is time and space which will cause the Net to reproduce
by its own nature.
If the intercontinental data channels were broken,
it would have the effect of mitosis on the Net.
Like an amoeba dividing, Each part would have the characteristics of the parent.
But that would most likely be a temporary division.
For the Net to really begin to reproduce will require
us to bring parts of it to other worlds.
Then the time lag of communication across the distances of space will
cause the two Networks to have limited information exchange.
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There will be a natural mitosis of the Net,
on the scale of worlds.
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You may think it is crazy to believe that the Internet is alive.
But why else would it be growing so fast, and learning so much?
How else could it have become the Absolute Authority,
the Omniscient Oracle, and the Global Guru?
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