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From: bc@dias.nswc.navy.mil (Bruce Copeland)
Subject: Re: Global Brain
Message-ID: <1994Sep22.144705.7502@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
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References:  <plugge.160.2E814A6A@cs.rulimburg.nl>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 14:47:05 GMT
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In article <plugge.160.2E814A6A@cs.rulimburg.nl>, plugge@cs.rulimburg.nl (Leo Plugge) writes:
|> OK, how about this one for a Minsky-like 'alife': the Internet.
|> 

Of course!! I thought everyone knew that we were building the beast. The
only questions that I have are 1) When will it become conscious? 2) Will
we know when it becomes conscious? 3) Will it be aware of us puny humans? 
(After all I'm not aware of my cells, are you?).

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