Internet vs Central Nervous System
As per Wikipedia, "The central nervous system (CNS) is the part of the nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord. The central nervous system is so named because it integrates information it receives from, and coordinates and influences the activity of all parts of the bodies.."
If the same analogy is applied to the physical world, what do we get? Internet, it does seem the closest match. It connects the world like nothing else. Any part is reachable from any other part at incomparable speed. And its not just the connectivity, its also knowledge and data that it holds, and it does hold a lot of it.
Last I checked, there were 3,124,647,889 live users on the internet !! And looking at the continuously ticking live internet stats, you might feel overwhelmed, like more than 2 million smartphones were sold today (and ticking!!), but that's the thing, Internet is growing at a sprawling pace and thus, consolidating itself. Its unstoppable .. (Homo Sapiens listening..)
But can the Internet become intelligent in itself? Its scary to think so but Internet does have all the fodder and time for thought! Its knows our history, our present and our also future thoughts (imagine a program reading this article and getting inspired!). It knows our habits, our psychology, our technology, our research and so much for the love of books that we have machine readable eBooks now. It also knows what we are thinking currently and may be laughing at how stupid we are sometimes - twitterati, behold your world consciousness.
Check our other thoughts on zeitgeist, thoughts in the air.
Some say, its a matter of time before we get taken over. Who can forget the conviction by which Agent Smith puts it across "Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet."
So what's stopping THEM? Number of synapses, complex data structures, processing power, efficiency? For one - spirituality, for those who believe, you either have it or don't. Its a connection, a feeling that can't be learnt. It gives us character and ideas. It all boils down to feelings and emotions that we, humans display and witness. Non-believers though, would still argue that feelings & thoughts are nothing more than chemical reactions. The arguments continues and all we can say is - we'll see.
If the same analogy is applied to the physical world, what do we get? Internet, it does seem the closest match. It connects the world like nothing else. Any part is reachable from any other part at incomparable speed. And its not just the connectivity, its also knowledge and data that it holds, and it does hold a lot of it.
Last I checked, there were 3,124,647,889 live users on the internet !! And looking at the continuously ticking live internet stats, you might feel overwhelmed, like more than 2 million smartphones were sold today (and ticking!!), but that's the thing, Internet is growing at a sprawling pace and thus, consolidating itself. Its unstoppable .. (Homo Sapiens listening..)
But can the Internet become intelligent in itself? Its scary to think so but Internet does have all the fodder and time for thought! Its knows our history, our present and our also future thoughts (imagine a program reading this article and getting inspired!). It knows our habits, our psychology, our technology, our research and so much for the love of books that we have machine readable eBooks now. It also knows what we are thinking currently and may be laughing at how stupid we are sometimes - twitterati, behold your world consciousness.
Check our other thoughts on zeitgeist, thoughts in the air.
Some say, its a matter of time before we get taken over. Who can forget the conviction by which Agent Smith puts it across "Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet."
So what's stopping THEM? Number of synapses, complex data structures, processing power, efficiency? For one - spirituality, for those who believe, you either have it or don't. Its a connection, a feeling that can't be learnt. It gives us character and ideas. It all boils down to feelings and emotions that we, humans display and witness. Non-believers though, would still argue that feelings & thoughts are nothing more than chemical reactions. The arguments continues and all we can say is - we'll see.
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