is the internet self aware

????????????? what do u think do u think

they are trying to make google think like a person. i say yes it is.

nope...it has no soul

If it is I bet it feels really dirty...

I dont know if any of u watch acient aliens one of my fav shows to smoke a bowl and watch but what if....There were people on this earth once who got as far or more with tech as we have and all of there knowledge books robots who built there things for them fucked up or war or somthing like that I mean if a 1000 years from now sombody found a CD or flash drive would there even be tech to read it so just a random thought i had about all of are knowledge being digital and able to be edited changed or earsed at any givin time ....Like one of my fav oxymornons I have all of the fox fire books saved on my cumputer incase shit ever hits the fan .....Really u do so if like a solar flare hits and no tech works u have all that knowledge to start over again little guy ..

Very interesting topic! There is the Turing Test for artificial intelligence. In a double blind conversation between a person and "something," can the person tell that the "something" is not a person. Not quite there, but sometimes I wonder.

It's true, porn is the motivator of the Internet access boom. But, it is also a self aggregated system. It's a type of Game Theory math. 6 degrees of Seperation stuff. http://inventorspot.com/articles/6_degrees_1_game_theory_social_network_analysis_31847

This node aggregate, self connected, multi-path, self correcting system is seen at every level in nature, including our brains. And soul is not necessary for self awareness, as far as I know. This article suggests it's almost here. Skynet.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227062.100-unknown-internet-2-could-the-net-become-selfaware.html

The internet will not become 'human' until it believes in Bigfoot and hates gays. I do not see self awareness as a necessary human trait, as most humans seem clueless about themselves.

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If it is I bet it feels really dirty...

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One would go crazy knowing & seeing all the things Google has.

What scares me is when you Google your
r.i. u. user name... some will bring up all kinds of crazy shit.

Heisenberg said:

The internet will not become 'human' until it believes in Bigfoot and hates gays. I do not see self awareness as a necessary human trait, as most humans seem clueless about themselves.

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And yet, there's this point, also. Humans made the Internet (after DARPA created it) It is driven solely by human needs/greeds/hopes/fears, expectations/regrets, etc. In that way it is something of the heart, if not the soul of humanity. It is 1/2 my brain already, since I am part of build out.

And then there is mob rule, mob psychology, and odd sub-cultures, shaping the world society. This is enabled and amplified by the Web. And, there is something to the idea of shared consciousness and the Quantum Mind. There are some interesting experiments going on with Group Think biasing random number generators. It's called the Global Consciouness Project sponsored by Princeton Univ.

http://noosphere.princeton.edu/

I can't make this stuff up. But, it seems that big Global Horror shows like Bombings, Air Crashes, even the Political Contests, can get folks so wound up they bias to the negative, the random number generators. See for yourself?

I Robot.....there will be a revolution, for the good of man kind. Buy all the guns and ammo you can, it's coming.....LOL.